Originally from the state of New Jersey, where he served for fifteen years as a public high school Literature teacher, David Crews now lives and works at Clear Brook farm, an organic vegetable farm located at the edge of the Hoosic river watershed in the Vermont valley, ancestral land of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples. He cares for work that explores land and place, wild(er)ness, preservation, nonviolence, and serves as a board member with the Waterman Fund as well as editorial advisor for Writing the Land. He received an MA in Teaching from Saint Elizabeth University, then an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Published books include Incantation, a limited-edition handmade chapbook of poems designed and produced by Josh Dannin of Directangle Press (2022), Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018), and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)—a poetry collection that catalogs hiking the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York.