About the Author

James Crews's work has appeared in Ploughshares, Christian Century, 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.