Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), a winner of the National Poetry Series, and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). His recent poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Los Angeles Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, AGNI, The New York Review of Books, and elsewhere. He teaches in Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA program. (updated 10/2023)