James Lewis Huss is an award-winning poet, novelist, and playwright. He began his writing career at the University of South Carolina, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. He then earned his Master of Arts in English at Northwestern State University in Louisiana and for more than 20 years has taught English Literature and Language in the USA, China, Bolivia, and Taiwan.
James primarily considers himself a poet, having penned more than 100 poems—many of which are featured in literary journals, magazines, and anthologies—and one epic in blank verse: Out of the Water, The Epic of Moses. But he is also a novelist and playwright, authoring two YA novels—Book of Pilgrimage and Homined—and ten full-length plays (in blank verse).
In 2020, he created a new literary genre—the Mock Renaissance Tragedy. Two of James’s plays have had international staged readings: Shakespeare’s Robin V and Thomas Kyd’s The Scottish Lady at Two Three Comedy Club in Taipei, Taiwan. His play Tom Middleton and The Ur-thello was read as a part of the 2025 Baltimore Playwrights Festival, and his play Witch’s Tit was shortlisted for the 2024 Epiphanies New Works Festival.
James currently teaches English literature at a private international school in Washington, DC.