Craig Beaven was born and raised in Kentucky and earned a PhD from the University of Houston. His poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2016, Tin House, Third Coast, Pleiades, Rattle, and many other publications. He currently lives with his wife and children in Tallahassee, Florida.

Books by Craig Beaven:

Other poems on the web by Craig Beaven:
Three poems
Two poems
"Arguments About the World"
"Are You Okay?"
"We Will Never Forget"

About Natural History:

"I've been an admirer of Craig Beaven's poetry for years; for its deep focus as well as its immaculate craft. In NATURAL HISTORY the poet's domestic life--impending parenthood and marriage--is often in the foreground, but in the background of these poems is a deep, unsettling sense of history and time itself that haunts. NATURAL HISTORY is a deeply American, wonderfully accessible collection of poems, in voice, but it carries as well a freight of uncommon depths and shadows."
—Tony Hoagland