Christopher Nelson

Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021) and three chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship. He is the recipient of the 2023–24 Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship and the founding editor of Under a Warm Green Linden and Green Linden Press. His anthology Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora received a Midwest Book Award and was named one of the best poetry books of 2020–21 by Entropy Magazine.