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: The E.E. Cummings Prize (2024), The Rumi Prize for Poetry/Arts & Letters (2023), The Guernsey International Poetry Prize (2023), and The International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2016). 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.
Awards and Prizes
2024 December Poetry News Winter Competition Winner (Poetry Society, U.K.)
2024 E. E. Cummings Prize for “(from captivity) When living children”2023 Rumi Poetry Prize
2023 Guernsey International Poetry Prize, “On The Hospital Bed”
2021 Mass Book Award “Must Read Selection” for Field Light
2020 Troubador International Poetry Competition (U.K.), commended for “First Inoculation”
2020 NYC BigBookAward, Distinguished Favorite, for Field Light
2018 Wigtown Poetry Competition, second prize
2017 Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize, Finalist (Nimrod International Journal of Literature)
2017 Rubery Book Award Finalist (U.K.) for Marriage Map
2017 Gregory O’Donoghue International Poetry Prize, short-listed
2017 Paumanok Poetry Award, second prize, Farmingdale State College
2016 Pushcart Prize Nomination by MomEgg Review for “Urgency”
2016 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize for best man
2016 International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, first prize, “At Tribeca’s Edge”
2016 Kent and Sussex Open Poetry Competition (U.K.), second prize, “Fire in the Piano Warehouse”
2016 Isle of Guernsey International Poetry Competition (U.K.), selection for Poetry on the Buses Exhibition, “After an Argument”
2015 Ver Prize 2015 (St. Albans, U.K.), selection, “Patience”
2015 The Center for Book Arts Letterpress Chapbook Poetry Competition, semi-finalist, best man
2014 The Connecticut River Review 2014 Contest, third prize, “What Will Happen in the End”
2014 The Mississippi Review 2014 Contest, finalist, “Please Finish The Conversation”
2013 London School of Jewish Studies 2013 Contest (U.K.), honorable mention, “First Born”
2012 Pat Schneider Poetry Contest, Amherst Writers and Artists Press, finalist, “The Lost Museum”