Christopher Kondrich

Christopher Kondrich is Visiting Poet-in-Residence for the 2025-2026 academic year. His third book, Tread Upon, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2026. His second poetry collection Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), 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 Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, 2025). A recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, his poetry appears widely in such venues as the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, TriQuarterly, 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 in Creative and Environmental Writing.