Luci Shaw | |
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| Born | December 29, 1928 |
| Citizenship | American (naturalized in 1995) |
| Alma mater | Wheaton (1953) |
| Occupation(s) | poet, essay writer |
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Luci Shaw (born December 29, 1928) is a Christian writer of poetry and essays.[1][2]
Shaw was born on December 29, 1928, in England.[2] Her parents were medical missionaries, and she lived in Canada and Australia before moving to the United States to attend Wheaton College, Illinois.[3] Shaw graduated from Wheaton in 1953 with high honors.[3][4]
Shaw became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1995.[2]
Shaw is now Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She lectures on art and spirituality, the Christian imagination, poetry-writing, and journaling as an aid to artistic and spiritual growth.[5]
She has published ten volumes of poetry (several still in print) and numerous non-fiction books, and has edited and collaborated on multiple other works, including several with Madeleine L'Engle.[6] Her poems are widely anthologized.[1] Shaw usually works in free verse, and typically her poems are quite short, less than a page. Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eternal or other-worldly.[citation needed]
She is a charter member of the Chrysostom Society, an organization of published writers which "serves the Christian community by promoting the development of quality literature."[7]
Shaw married Harold Shaw and had five children: Robin, Marian, John, Jeffrey, and Kristin.[2] Shaw and her husband started a publishing house, Harold Shaw Publishers, in the basement of their home in 1972.[3][4] After Harold died from lung cancer in 1986, Shaw became president of Harold Shaw Publishers.[3][4][8] Stephen Board became owner of Harold Shaw Publishers in 1990 and sold it to Random House's WaterBrook Press in 2000.[9]
Shaw married John Hoyte in 1991.[8] They are members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Bellingham, Washington, where they currently live.[1][6]
A number of Shaw's works have been set to music, by a variety of composers:
