James Crews has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His work has appeared in Columbia, Prairie Schooner, Crab Orchard Review, Best New Poets 2006 and 2009 as well as other journals. His manuscript, The Book of What Stays, recently won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize and will be published by the University of Nebraska Press in September of 2011. He currently lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The Book of What Stays (University of Nebraska Press, 2011)

What Has Not Yet Left (Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010), Bending the Knot (Gertrude Press, 2009), One Hundred Small Yellow Envelopes (Parallel Press, 2009)