Christopher Kondrich

Christopher Kondrich is Poet-in-Residence at the University of Maryland. He is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Tread Upon (Copper Canyon Press, 2026) and Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), which was 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. He is also the co-editor of a multi-genre anthology Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, 2025), a Gold Winner of the Nautilus Book Award, and the co-author of Save Error: Writing, Agency, and Playability in the Academic Institution (Counterpath Press, forthcoming 2027), a collaborative work of creative nonfiction. A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, his poetry appears widely in such venues as The Atlantic, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Nation, New England Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review, as well as in the anthology Attached to the Living World (Trinity University Press, 2025). He has taught poetry and creative writing as Visiting Assistant Professor at the College of the Holy Cross, as Writer-in-Residence at the State University of New York at New Paltz, and at George Washington University and Bard College. An Associate Editor of 32 Poems, he also teaches for Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA Program in Creative and Environmental Writing.