J. Patrick Lewis’s poems have appeared in Gettysburg Review, New England Review, New Letters, Southern Humanities Review, new renaissance, Kansas Quarterly, Fine Madness, Light Quarterly, and many other literary journals and small magazines.

To date he has published 68 children’s poetry and picture books with Knopf, Creative Editions, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic, Sleeping Bear Press, Chronicle Books, Scholastic, Candlewick, and others.

His first book of adult poems—Gulls Hold Up the Sky—is forthcoming from Laughing Fire Press.

Lewis holds a Ph.D. in Economics from The Ohio State University. He taught for thirty years at the college level before becoming a full-time writer.