Stan Crawford is an attorney (who practices civil trial law) and a poet living in the Heights area of Houston, Texas, with his wife, Dawn, and two pets: an aging cat and a somewhat psychotic dog. His two daughters live in Louisiana and visit frequently. He graduated from Brown University in 1973 and received his J.D. from the University of Texas in 1976. He has studied creative writing at Brown and at workshops sponsored by Inprint in Houston, and Gemini Ink in San Antonio, Texas. His poems have been recently published in Poet Lore, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and The Comstock Review, among other journals.

"This poet consistently finds powerful phrasing which evokes, at its best, a sort of spare longing and wistfulness. Crawford has the ability to focus and transform events common (and not so common) to us all, exacting from these events a record fashioned by a lawyer's sharp eye. The lines [from How They Stayed] 'dusty cattle stung by screwworm/as they drifted round the water tank' excellently example this poet's skill." - Houston Poetry Review