A man with gray hair sitting outdoors in a garden, smiling, wearing a patterned shirt, a dark jacket, light pants, and sneakers, with a wooden fence and green plants in the background.

About James Warner

James Warner is the author of three collections of poetry from Makeless Press. Welcome Fog follows the publication of The Orphans and other poems, with Beginningless forthcoming in late 2026.

James was born in 1960 and grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. With a degree in Mechanical Engineering he eventually made a career as an executive in the field of engineering research and consulting, from which he retired in 2008. In the late 1980s he met Jean Klein, a European master of Advaita (non-dualism) and yoga, and studied with him for several years in Europe and America. In 2015, in India, James met the American teacher James Swartz and, subsequently in Chennai, Swami Paramarthananda Saraswati. From studying with them over a number of years, James learned the traditional teaching method of Advaita Vedanta, which he shares through private classes in Halifax.