Rogers, James Silas: - James Silas Rogers is a Minnesota-based essayist and poet. He is the author of the chapbook Sundogs (2006), and his poems have appeared in many journals and on Garrison Keillor's ''Writers Almanac.'' His creative nonfiction has appeared in New Letters, Notre Dame Magazine, Ruminate, and elsewhere; he has been listed as a ''notable'' in Best American Essays. Rogers edits New Hibernia Review, an Irish Studies quarterly published by the University of St. Thomas.