A charter member of the Chrysostom Society, Luci Shaw is author of fourteen volumes of poetry. Her writing has also appeared in numerous literary and religious journals. In 2013, she received the annual Denise Levertov Award for Creative Writing from Seattle Pacific University. Since 1986, she has been Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver.
Her volumes of poetry include An Incremental Life (Paraclete, 2025), Reversing Entropy (Paraclete, 2024), Angels Everywhere (Paraclete 2022), The Generosity (Paraclete 2020), Eye of the Beholder (Paraclete, 2019), Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016), Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace (InterVarsity Press, 2016), Polishing the Petoskey Stone (Shaw, 1990), Writing the River (Regent Publishing, 1997), The Angles of Light (Waterbrook, 2000), The Green Earth: Poems of Creation (Eerdmans, 2002).
She has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift, The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, (Shaw, 1998). Other books include What the Light Was Like (Word Farm), Accompanied by Angels (Eerdmans), The Genesis of It All (Paraclete), and Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit (Nelson). Her poetic work and essays have been widely anthologized.
Shaw has authored several non-fiction prose books, including Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan) and The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity). She has also co-authored three books with Madeleine L’Engle, WinterSong (Regent), Friends for the Journey (Regent), and A Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends (Augsburg/Fortress).