Owen Lewis is the author of three collections of poetry, Marriage Map, Sometimes Full of Daylight, and Field Light, and three chapbooks. best man was the recipient of the 2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize of the New England Poetry Club. Field Light was a “Must Read” selection of the Massachusetts Books Awards. Major prizes include: 2023 The Rumi Prize for Poetry/Arts & Letters, 2023 The Guernsey International Poetry Prize, and 2016 The International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. Other prizes include: Second Prize 2018 Wigtown (Scotland) International Poetry Competition and Finalist, 2017 Pablo Neruda Award. His poetry has appeared in Nimrod, Poetry Wales, The Mississippi Review, Southward, The Four Way Review, Cider Press Review, and Arts and Letters. He is a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University in the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and lectures extensively on topics of Narrative Medicine.
