Luci Shaw was born in London, England, in 1928. A poet and essayist whose writing has appeared in numerous literary and religious journals, in 2013 she received the tenth annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University, and in 2023 she received the Kenneth N. Taylor Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of her lifetime of work in the Christian publishing industry. The author of over thirty-five books of poetry and creative non-fiction, since 1986 she has been Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver. She lives with her husband, John Hoyte, in Bellingham, WA.
""Luci Shaw's latest collection, An Incremental Life, illuminates the bright intervals in a cherished soul whose life's oeuvre hums with a perpetual, hopeful delight for our weary sojourners. In her ninth decade, Shaw's flourishing world of flora and fauna continues to bear fruit in the garden of her richly allusive, metaphorical imagination. Here is a poetry of musical wisdom and meaningful sustenance where the ""Faithful One"" plays ""the ear of / my mind like an instrument"" and blesses life's very small yet vital increments of experience, moments as ethereal yet embodied as ""single / breaths of an ambient air."" --Karen An-hwei Lee, author of The Beautiful Immunity and Duress