I’m honoured to announce that James Jiang will be taking up the helm of Literature Essays Editor for Cordite Poetry Review. His care, craft and academic nous is peerless.
James Jiang is a writer, editor, and recovering academic based in Brisbane where he is Assistant Editor at Griffith Review. In addition to appearing in Cordite Poetry Review, his reviews and essays have been published in a variety of venues in Australia (Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, LIMINAL Magazine) and abroad (Cambridge Quarterly, Ploughshares, Modernism/modernity). He holds a PhD in modernist poetry and poetics from the University of Cambridge, and taught literature and thesis-writing at the University of Melbourne for a number of years before joining Australian Book Review as Assistant Editor (2021–2022). His interests range across poetry (contemporary and historical), the history and theory of criticism, diasporic writing, translation and sport.
Kent MacCarter is director of Cordite publishing Inc., publisher of Cordite Books and managing editor of
Cordite Poetry Review. He is the author of four poetry collections –
In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009),
Sputnik's Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014), California Sweet (Five Islands Press, 2018) and Fat Chance (Upswell Publishing, 2024).
James Jiang is a writer, editor and recovering academic based in Brisbane. His work has been published in a variety of venues in Australia (
Sydney Review of Books, Australian Book Review, LIMINAL Magazine) and abroad (
Cambridge Quarterly, Ploughshares, Modernism/modernity). He holds a PhD in modernist poetry and poetics from the University of Cambridge, and taught literature and thesis-writing at the University of Melbourne for a number of years. His interests range across poetry (contemporary and historical), the history and theory of criticism, and translation. He is Assistant Editor at
Griffith Review.
