Draft:Caroline Crew

Caroline Crew (born 1988) is a British author, creative writing professor, and editor living in the United States. Her essay collection Other Girls to Burn was selected as the 2021 AWP Prize for Creative Nonfiction and published by the University of Georgia Press. She is the author of two poetry collections and three poetry chapbooks. Crew currently resides in Kansas City, Missouri, and teaches creative writing at the University of Central Missouri.

Education and early career
Crew attended Shebbear College. She earned her undergraduate degree from Saint Andrews University, where she was given the Robert T Jones, Jr Scholarship to study at Emory University. Crew received her master's from Exeter College at the University of Oxford and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Studying under Beth Gylys and Josh Russell, she received her PhD from Georgia State University. While at Georgia State, she served as poetry editor and creative non-fiction editor for New South Journal. She taught creative writing as a visiting professor at Warren Wilson College. Since 2016, Crew has served as a volunteer mentor for the Adroit Journal's high school program.

Writing
Crew is author of the essay collection Other Girls to Burn. The book was selected by Alexander Chee for the AWP Prize in Creative nonfiction. The collection "nimbly explores the complex relationship between women and violence through the examination of rape culture and mass shootings, through the lens of cultural phenomena such as mixed martial arts and true crime, through the iconography of mythology and mystics." In doing so, Crew guides "the reader through a series of lyrical essays that change the way we view not only violence, but how it came to be." Published by UGA press, essays from the collection appear in Texas Review, The Missouri Review, Seneca Review, Prairie Schooner, and DIAGRAM.

Crew's poetry collection Don't Cut Your Own Bangs is forthcoming from YesYes Books in 2024. Poems from this collection appear in Poetry Magazine, The Gettysburg Review, Cincinnati Review, Ploughshares, and The Believer.

Crew's poetry collection Pink Museum was published by Big Lucks press. Her book places Crew and her peers as historically connected to the "all the dead women" who came before. Crew describes the work as "a combination of pretty straight love poems, poems written in this other lyric voice (which is essentially Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s ghost), and poems that could be seen as a little aggressive."

Editing
Crew founded and edited the online poetry journal ILK. She variously held the Poetry and Creative Nonfiction editorships at New South Journal.

Currently, Crew serves as the Nonfiction Editor for Pleiades Magazine.