Christopher Nelson

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