James Ulmer is the author of two collections of ghost stories, The Secret Life (2012) and The Fire Doll (2017). He received his M.A. from the University of Washington and his Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He served as a literature panelist for The Texas Commission on the Arts and has received fellowships and awards for his writing from MacDowell, two Cultural Arts Council of Houston Creative Artist Program Grants, two Academy of American Poets Prizes, the Pablo Neruda Prize, the PEN Southwest Discovery Prize, and grants from The Ohio Arts Council and The Washington State Commission for the Humanities. His poems and short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The North American Review, The Missouri Review, New Letters, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. A collection of poems, Notes Toward a City of Rain, was published in 1996. For many years, Ulmer was writer-in-residence at Houston Baptist University. He is currently chair of the Department of English and Foreign Languages at Southern Arkansas University.
James Ulmer
Studios
Sorosis
James Ulmer worked in the Sorosis studio.
Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…