James Crews's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Christian Century, The New Republic, and Crab Orchard Review, among other journals, and he is a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement. His first collection of poetry, The Book of What Stays, won the 2010 Prairie Schooner Book Prize and received a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year Citation. He is also author of Telling My Father, winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize, and editor of Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, published by Green Writers Press. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing Poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he was an Othmer Fellow and worked for Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry Newspaper column. He lives on part of an organic farm with his husband in Vermont and teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Eastern Oregon University. You can also find him at www.jamescrews.net.