Jim Barnes is the editor of The Chariton Review. His eighth book of poetry, On the Wing of the Sun, was published in the fall of 2001 by the University of Illinois Press. He has held two Camarago Foundation Fellowships since 1996.

About Quarterly West:
Poets in this issue: Mark Halperin, A. V. Christie, David Ingle, Thom Ward, Jeffrey Encke, Mitch Raney, Bob Hicok, Timothy Liu, Jim Barnes, Jim Daniels, Michael David Madonick, Brian Townsley, Melissa Kwasny, Eugenio De Andrade, George Looney, Kris Cohen, Vidas Gvozdzius, Susan Goslee, Steven Sherrill, Eric Burger, Hugh Steinberg, Cathryn Essinger, Jennifer Farmer, Catherine Reynolds