Luci Shaw (1928-2025) was born in London to medical missionary parents and lived in Canada and Australia before enrolling at Wheaton College in Illinois, from which she graduated with high honors in 1953. She co-founded Harold Shaw Publishers and later served as its president. Her first collection, Listen to the Green, appeared in 1971; later volumes include The Green Earth: Poems of Creation (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002) and Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016). She became a naturalized American citizen in 1995. In 2013 she received the Denise Levertov Award from Seattle Pacific University.
