Chris Forhan is the author of three previous books of poetry: Black Leapt In, winner of the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, winner of the Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award; and Forgive Us Our Happiness, winner of the Bakeless Prize. He has also published two works of nonfiction, A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song and the memoir My Father Before Me.
His poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, Ploughshares, New England Review, Parnassus, Georgia Review, Field, Gettysburg Review, and other magazines, as well as in The Best American Poetry. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes, has earned a “Discover Great New Writers” selection from Barnes and Noble, and has been a resident at Yaddo and a fellow at Bread Loaf.
Born and raised in Seattle, he has lived and taught in every corner of the country; since 2007, he has resided in Indianapolis, where he is Professor of English at Butler University.
