J ames B. Johnston was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland and educated at Grosvenor High School in Belfast and Trinity College in Dublin.  A Protestant from East Belfast, he met his wife Ann, a Catholic from North Belfast, shortly after The Troubles began in 1969.  They married and immigrated to North America in 1974.  In addition to being a poet and author of Exile: Poems of an Irish Immigrant , Jim is owner of an independent publishing company Celtic Cat Publishing which published the Guild's most recent anthology, Breathing the Same Air: An East Tennessee Anthology in 2000.  Jim was the recipient of the Celtic Heritage prize in 2000 given by the Scottish Society of Knoxville for his poem, "The Greening of America."