James Thomas Stevens is the author of four books of poetry, Tokinish (First Intensity Press 1994), Combing the Snakes from His Hair (Michigan State UP 2002), and (dis)Orient (Palmpress, 2005), Mohawk/Samoa: Transmigrations (Subpress, 2006), and one forthcoming, The Mutual Life (Plan B Press, 2006). He is a member of the Akwesasne Mohawk tribe, attended the Institute of American Indian Arts and The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa and holds an MFA from Brown University.