Owen Lewis is the author of three col­lec­tions of poet­ry and three chap­books, most­ly recent­ly ​“Knock-knock”. His pri­or col­lec­tion ​“Field Light” was a ​“must read” selec­tion of the New Eng­land Book Awards. Hon­ors include the 2024 E.E.Cummings Prize, the 2023 Guernsey Inter­na­tion­al Poet­ry Prize, the 2023 Rumi Prize for Poet­ry, the Inter­na­tion­al Hip­pocrates Prize for Poet­ry and Med­i­cine, and the Jean Pedrick Chap­book Award. At Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty he is Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try in the Depart­ment of Med­ical Human­i­ties and Ethics and teach­es Nar­ra­tive Medicine.