James Brock came to teach at Florida Gulf Coast University in the Fall of 1998, after having been an academic Kelly girl, teaching at Indiana, Belmont, Idaho State, and East Stroudsburg Universities, and the University of Miami. For his poetry, he has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alex Haley Foundation, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the Idaho Commission for the Arts. He has two books to his credit, The Sunshine Mine Disaster (University of Idaho Press, 1995) and nearly Florida (Anhinga Press, 2000). His poetry is featured in numerous national literary magazines, including Carolina Quarterly, College English, Northwest Review, Seattle Review, and Southern Poetry Review. Jim was graduated from the College of Idaho, and received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University.

A native of Idaho, Jim now lives in Fort Myers, where he enjoys birding, nature walking, dance, and film. His fun destinations include the Everglades, Corkscrew Audubon Sanctuary, Lover's Key, Lakes Park, Six-Mile Cypress, Sanibel Island and Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge, the Warehaus in Hollywood, Florida, South Beach, Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Scotty's near the Grove, Lowman, Idaho, Long Beach, Washington, just to name a few.

Jim regularly teaches composition, creative writing, professional writing, and whatever else needs teaching in the English Program.