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, 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 American Poetry Review, Boulevard, Southeast Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, Bellingham Review, and Colorado Review.

Places he has taught include the University of Kansas, Indiana University, Kettle Pond Writers’ Conference, The Downtown Writers Center, and the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing. He lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.