Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, by Library Journal as a Best Poetry Book of 2019, and as a finalist for The Believer Book Award, as well as the book-length poem Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013).
His poetry and essays appear widely in such venues as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day (selected by Tracy K. Smith), AGNI, The Believer, The Kenyon Review (in a folio curated by Solmaz Sharif), Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, The Yale Review, and Poetry Northwest, and his work has been recognized with an Iowa Review Award (selected by Srikanth Reddy), The Paris-American Reading Series Prize, and four Pushcart Prize nominations. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the I-Park Foundation, the University of Denver, and Columbia University.
He has taught poetry and creative writing as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, as a Writer-in-Residence at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and at George Washington University and Bard College. He is currently a faculty member for Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing.
Co-editor of Creature Conserve: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and an associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives in Maryland with his partner and daughter.