Christopher Kondrich

Christopher Kondrich is the author of Tread Upon, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press in 2026. His previous books are Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), which won the National Poetry Series and was named a best book of 2019 by Library Journal, and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). His poems have appeared widely in such venues as The Believer, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, New York Review of Books, Paris Review, Ploughshares, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, TriQuarterly, and Yale Review, and have received fellowships from MacDowell and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is also the co-editor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation, forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. He is currently a faculty member for Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA in Creative and Environmental Writing.