James Swansbrough runs a restaurant repair company in Chattanooga, Tennessee. His work has appeared in West Branch, Free State Review, Cagibi, Freshwater Review, Watershed Review, and others. His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and has been awarded Honorable Mention twice: for the 2019 Yeats Poetry Award by the WB Yeats Society of New York, and for the 2022 New Millennium Writing Awards in Nashville. He lives in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, with his wife and daughters.