James Crews is the editor of several bestselling anthologies, including The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, which has over 100,000 copies in print. He has been featured in The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The New York Times Magazine, The New Republic, The Christian Science Monitor, and on NPR’s Morning Edition. James is the author of four prize-winning books of poetry—The Book of What Stays, Telling My Father, Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment—and a book of short essays, Kindness Will Save the World: Stories of Compassion and Connection.  James’ new book Unlocking the Heart: Writing for Mindfulness, Courage, and Self-Compassion has just been published. 

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James Crews holds an MFA from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D.in writing and literature from the University of Nebraska and teaches poetry at the University at Albany. He also teaches in the Poetry and Resilience Seminars which he co-founded with Danusha Lameris. 

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James also speaks and leads workshops on kindness, mindfulness, and writing for self-compassion. He lives with his husband on forty rocky acres in the woods of Southern Vermont.