Jim SchleyThe Story of Native American Headress

Jim Schley grew up in Wisconsin and has a BA from Dartmouth College (Literature & Creative Writing and Native American Studies, 1975) and an MFA from Warren Wilson College (Poetry, 1986). He was co-editor of the literary journal New England Review and editor-in-chief of Chelsea Green Publishing Company, and he has edited more than a hundred books on a wide variety of subjects, including literary genres and history as well as “practical ecology”: nature-based building techniques, renewable energy technologies, and regenerative farming and gardening.

From 2006–2008 he was executive director of The Frost Place, a museum and conference center at poet Robert Frost’s former home in Franconia, N.H. He is an associate member of the journalists’ collective Homelands Research Group, and author of a new book of poems, As When, In Season.

Jim lives with his wife and daughter in an off-the-grid community in Strafford, Vermont.