Patricia Cox Crews is Director of the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Professor in the Department of Textiles, Clothing and Design. She served as primary editor for Nebraska Quilts and Quiltmakers (University of Nebraska Press, 1991), which won the Smithsonian's Frost Prize for Distinguished Scholarship in American Crafts in 1993. More recently she edited the exhibition catalogue A Flowering of Quilts (University of Nebraska Press, 2001).