Education

David Craig received a Bachelor of Arts from Cleveland State University in 1980; a Master of Arts from Colorado State University in 1984; a Master of Fine Arts in 1986 and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 from Bowling Green State University.

Career

In 1986-1988, David Craig worked at Cleveland State University as a lecturer in English. From 1988, he workes at Franciscan University of Steubenville as a professor of English. He was a lecturer at Cuyahoga Community College in 1986-1988. He is a presenter of workshops and a judge of poetry contests. He also gives readings from his works. His working interests include Contemporary Christian poetry, Blue-collar Catholic poetics, Creative Writing pedagogy.

He has co-edited three anthologies of Christian poetry with Janet McCann of Texas A&M University: Odd Angles of Heaven, 1994, Place of Passage, 2000, and Poems of Francis and Clare: An Anthology, 2005. David Craig is a contributor of poetry, fiction, and reviews to periodicals, including Christianity and Literature, American Literary Review, Ancient Paths, Bloomsbury Review, Burning Light, Windhover, North Coast Review, Christian Century, Franciscan Way, and Home Planet News. He is a contributor to the Library of Congress recording Upholding Mystery.

Achievements

• David Craig was nominated for Pulitzer Prize in 1991. He has published fifteen collections of poetry. His poetry has been widely published and anthologized - most significantly in David Impastato's Upholding Mystery for Oxford University Press where he shared space with only 12 other poets in the English-speaking world. Thirty-two of his poems are included there. Those poems are also recorded in the Library of Congress, and his Mercys Face was chosen as one of the 500 most important literary works in the history of Christendom by Masterplots. The book "Whose Saints We Are" was chosen among the five "must-reads" for The Christian Century's Christmas book issue in 2013.

Works

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  • Francis And Clare in Poetry

    (As the poems in this anthology demonstrate, Francis and C...)

    2005
  • Like Taxes: Marching through Gaul

    (David Craig is eager for the fullness of the religious ex...)

    1990
  • The Cheese Stands Alone

    (With the secular culture falling down all around him, Jam...)

    1997
  • Whose Saints We Are

    (People get it wrong. The saints are more human than the r...)

    2013
  • St. Francis Poems

    (After Mary, St. Francis is clearly the most popular and i...)

    2013
  • Peter Maurin & Other Poems 1985

Membership

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  Academy of American Poets , United States

Connections

David Craig lives in Weirton, West Virginia, with his wife Linda and their three children, David Thomas, Jude Francis, and Bridget Jean.

Son:

David Thomas Craig

Son:

Jude Francis Craig

Daughter:

Bridget Jean Craig