James Crews

James Crews' work has appeared in Ploughshares, Raleigh Review, Crab Orchard Review, and The New Republic, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to The London Times Literary Supplement. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Creative Writing from University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he worked for former Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He is the author of two collections of poetry, The Book of What Stays (Prairie Schooner Prize, 2011) and Telling My Father (Cowles Prize, 2016), and the editor of Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection (Green Writers Press, 2019). He lives on part of an organic farm in Vermont with his husband and teaches creative writing at SUNY-Albany.