James Mitchell is the publisher of Ithuriel's Spear, a non-profit small press that has produced more than thirty books of poems and fiction by Bay Area writers since 2005. He is currently at work on Gay Sunrise, an anthology of gay writing in San Francisco 1968–1974, forthcoming in September 2018. His own works include Good Gay Poems, Soto Zen Ancestors in China, and two books of translation by the German poets Friedrich Hölderlin and Walafrid Strabo.