Paul Crenshaw is the author of the essay collections This One Will Hurt You and This We’ll Defend. His work has also appeared in Best American Essays, Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Pushcart Prize, Oxford American, Glimmer Train, and Tin House.
Paul Crenshaw writes some of the finest prose you’ll find anywhere and does so without a trace of literary gimmickry or personal showboating. If Chekhov wrote essays, this is what they would sound like.”
—Robert Atwan