JAMES ALAN RILEY, author of Uncertain Mythologies, poems (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, March 2024) and Broken Frequencies, a book of poems (Shadelandhouse Modern Press, 2019), is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a 2023 Artists Relief and Disaster Recovery Grant from the Kentucky Arts Council, the 2020 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Excellence in Appalachian Literature, two Al Smith Fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council, and an Individual Artists Fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Pikeville.