James Allen Hall is the author of 2 books of poems: Now You're the Enemy (which won awards from the Lambda Literary Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Fellowship of Southern Writers) and Romantic Comedy (winner of the Levis Reading Prize from Four Way Books). His book of lyric personal essays, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well, won the 2016 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Essay Collection Award, judged by Chris Kraus. With Aaron Smith, he hosts the podcast Breaking Form: https://breakingformpod.buzzsprout.com.
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