Originally from the state of New Jersey, where he served for fifteen years as a public high school literature teacher, David Crews now lives and works at Clear Brook farm, an organic fruit and vegetable farm located at the edge of the Hoosic river watershed in the Vermont valley, ancestral land of Muhheaconneok and western Abenaki peoples.
He cares for work that explores land and place, wild(er)ness, preservation, nonviolence, and serves as board member with the Waterman Fund as well as editorial advisor for Writing the Land. He received an MA in Teaching from Saint Elizabeth University and an MFA in Poetry from Drew University, where he studied with poet-artists Ross Gay, Aracelis Girmay, Ira Sadoff, and Judith Vollmer.
New poetry from Mônadenok can be found in The Ecological Citizen, Appalachia, Kestrel, Ran Off With the Star Bassoon, and This Broken Shore. He is author of Incantation, a limited edition handmade chapbook of poems designed and produced by Josh Dannin of Directangle Press (2022), Wander-Thrush: Lyric Essays of the Adirondacks (Ra Press, 2018) and High Peaks (Ra Press, 2015)—a poetry collection that catalogs hiking the “Adirondack 46ers” in upstate New York.