Christopher Nelson

Christopher Nelson is the author of Snowlight (JackLeg Press, 2027), Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021) and six chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America Fellowship. A recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, he is the founding editor of Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to literary excellence and reforestation. He has edited two anthologies, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora, which received a Midwest Book Award, and Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry. His translation (with Monika Cassel) of Barbara Köhler’s visionary Niemands Frau was honored with a grant from the Goethe-Institut and is forthcoming in 2028.