Author of four poetry collections, James Crews made his debut with The Book of What Stays, winner of the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry from the University of Nebraska Press and a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Award. His second collection, Telling My Father, won the Cowles Poetry Prize and was published by Southeast Missouri State University Press. He followed with Bluebird and Every Waking Moment, both from Green Writers Press. His poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Ploughshares, The New Republic, and Prairie Schooner. He has also edited several anthologies of poems on gratitude and mindfulness.
