Jim Simmerman published four poetry collections: Home (Dragon Gate Inc., 1983) which was selected by Raymond Carver as a Pushcart "Writer's Choice" Selection; Once Out of Nature (The Galileo Press, Ltd. 1989) a "Best of the Small Presses" featured exhibit at the Frankfurt Book Fair; Moon Go Away, I Don't Love You No More (Miami University Press, 1994) which was nominated for a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize; and Kingdom Come (Miami U. Press, 1999). He also co-edited the anthology Dog Music: Poetry About Dogs (St. Martin's Press, 1996). He received fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, Bread Loaf and Port Townsend Writers' Conferences, the Fine Arts Work Center, and the NEA.
