Christopher Citro’s first book of poetry, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, was published by Steel Toe Books on March 1, 2015.
His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for his poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” (first published in Sycamore Review), the 2015 Poetry Writing Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art (judged by Beth Ann Fennelly), and inclusion in the anthology Best New Poets 2014. His poetry has been an honorable mention for the River Styx International Poetry Prize, shortlisted for the Booth Poetry Prize, a semifinalist for the Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize, and a finalist for the Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry and the Rattle Poetry Prize.
Born and raised in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, Christopher holds a bachelor’s degree from the Honor’s Tutorial College of Ohio University. He did graduate work at the University of Kansas, and in 2013 received his MFA in poetry at Indiana University where he taught intro and upper level courses in creative writing, composition, and literary publishing and editing.
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