James Crews' poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Christian Century, and The New Republic, and have been featured on Tracy K. Smith's The Slowdown and Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry column. 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 the author of Telling My Father, winner of the Cowles Poetry Prize, and editor of the bestselling Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection, also from Green Writers Press. He teaches at SUNY-Albany and leads Mindfulness & Writing workshops across the country.