Chris Bursk, recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew Fellowships, is
the author of eleven books including h The First Inhabitants of Arcadia from the University of Arkansas Press and The Improbable
Swervings of Atoms from University of Pittsburgh Press. In addition to having worked as a volunteer for three decades in the corrections system, with those on probation and parole, he is currently a professor of language and literature at Bucks County Community College. His work has appeared in magazines such as Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Manhattan Review, and The Sun. His poem, “Ovid at Fifteen,” won the Another Chicago Magazine Award, judged by Robert Dana. Chris has won numerous awards for his humanitarian and literary efforts including Bucks County Citizen of the Year and Poet Laureate of Bucks County. The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns won the Bright Hill Chapbook competition Selected Poems from Future Cycle Press was
published in 2014.