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 poetic 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 Niemands Frau is forthcoming from Green Linden Press and has been honored with a grant from the Goethe-Institut.