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Shutta Crum writes books for children and poetry for adults. She is also a storyteller, an energetic and humorous public speaker, and a librarian. In addition to her current twenty-one traditionally published books, many of her articles about teaching and writing have appeared in professional journals. She was honored in 2005 by being one of eight authors invited to the White House for the Easter Egg Roll. In 2010 she was invited to present to the Department of Defense American military base schools across Japan.

Shutta Crum

Check out Shutta’s board books, picture books, novels for young readers, and poetry books for adults here.

Book Shutta for your literary festival, conference, luncheon, library function, poetry gig, university/school visit.

Meet Me Out There review

A big THANK YOU to Neil Leadbeater for giving my 3rd chapbook MEET ME OUT THERE such a lovely review…

The Way to the River review

Read the lovely review of THE WAY TO THE RIVER, published in the Mom Egg Review here. A BIG thank yo…

Gifts for Writers

Need a holiday gift for your poet? Here's some suggestions!

Newest Book of Poems by Shutta Crum: Meet Me out There

It’s here! My third book of poems: Meet Me Out There. Published by Kelsay Books. They’ve…

Prize-Winning Poem: Newton’s Laws :: Angles > Angels by Shutta Crum

Here’s the poem that won a silver Royal Palm Literary Award at the 2023 FLA awards ceremony. N…