Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His honors include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry, a 2019 fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, Columbia Journal‘s poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review.

Christopher’s poetry appears widely in literary journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, West Branch, Gulf Coast, Best New Poets, and Alaska Quarterly Review, and it has been anthologized in venues such as Best New Poets, New Poetry from the Midwest, Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland, Nothing to Declare: A Guide to the Flash Sequence, Every River on Earth: Writing from Appalachian Ohio, They Said: An Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing, and elsewhere.

His fiction appears in The Spectacle, The Cincinnati Review, and Best Microfiction 2020. His creative nonfiction appears in Boulevard, Southeast Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, Bellingham Review, and Colorado Review.

He has taught at the University of Kansas, Indiana University, Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, and in the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.