Richard Krawiec

Richard Krawiec has published 2 novels, Time Sharing and Faith in What?, a story collection, And Fools of God, 2 books of poetry, She Hands me the Razor and Breakdown, and 4 plays, as well as 2 young adult biographies, and book reviews and feature articles for national publications. Time Sharing was a Publisher's Weekly Recommended selection, and made the Village Voice Real Life Rock Top Ten. She Hands me the Razor was one of 17 poetry books nominated for a 2012 SIBA Award. His play Creeds had its World Premiere in Durham, where it played to sold-out shows. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NC Arts Council(twice) and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work appears in Shenandoah, sou'wester, Witness, Cream City Review, Florida Review, West Branch, NC Literary Review, 2Rivers View, Connotation, and dozens of other literary magazines.

He has edited anthologies featuring the work of Dorianne Laux, Marge Piercy, Reynolds Price, Lee Smith, Allan Gurganus, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Joe Millar, Michael Chitwood, Jaki Shelton Green and others. He also edited the rare volume of international poets, Taboo Haiku.

He teaches Beginning Intermediate and Advanced Fiction Writing online for UNC Chapel Hill, for which he wrote the curriculum and won their Excellence in Teaching Award. As founder of Jacar Press, a Community Active Press, he publishes books of poetry. His most famous edited works include The Sound of Poets Cooking, a poetry anthology/cookbook,and the poetry collection called ...and love.... Both with Jacar Press www.jacarpress.com

He has worked extensively with people in homeless shelters, abused women and children, literacy students, prisoners(including those on Death Row(, immigrants, and others who have been traditionally excluded from literary programming.