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Christopher Kondrich is a poet, writer, and editor. His third book, Tread Upon, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in April 2026. He is also the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), which won the National Poetry Series and was selected by Library Journal as a Best Poetry Book of 2019. His poetry appear widely in such venues as The Atlantic, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review. He has received fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He currently teaches in the M.F.A. Program in Creative Writing at the University of Maryland, as well as in Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency M.F.A. in Creative and Environmental Writing. Co-editor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, 2025) and an associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives in Maryland with his partner and daughter.