Christopher Martin is author of the poetry collection Firmament (Wandering Aengus Press, forthcoming 2023), which won the Wandering Aengus Book Award, and the essay collection This Gladdening Light (Mercer UP, 2017), for which he received the Georgia Author of the Year Award in Memoir and the Will D. Campbell Award in Creative Nonfiction. Chris is also author of three poetry chapbooks and recipient of the George Scarbrough Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in On Being, Shambhala Sun (now Lion's Roar), McSweeney's, Thrush Poetry Journal, Ruminate, Still: The Journal, Fourth River, Waccamaw, Broad River Review, Poecology, Pilgrimage, Drafthorse, Sugar Mule, Menacing Hedge, Bridge Eight, Revolution House, Adventum, Raven Chronicles, St. Sebastian Review, Lime Hawk, Town Creek Poetry, Loose Change, and elsewhere. Chris is a writer-in-residence for Georgia Writers, where he contributes the creative nonfiction craft series Stay in No Realms: Seeking and Essaying.
