Christopher Salerno

Christopher Salerno is a professor, an editor, and the author of five books of poetry. His most recent book, The Man Grave (Persea, 2021), won the Lexi Rudnitsky Award from Persea Books. Previous books include Sun & Urn (University of Georgia Press, 2017), ATM (Georgetown Poetry Prize, 2013) (Georgetown Review Press, 2014), Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Press, 2010), and Whirligig (Spuyten Duyvil, 2006). His trade book, How to Write Poetry: A Guided Journal with Prompts, was published in 2020 by Rockridge Press. He is also the author of numerous chapbooks of poetry.

Salerno’s work has received the Glenna Luschei Award from Prairie Schooner, the Founders’ Prize from RHINO Poetry, the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Award, the Laurel Review Chapbook Prize, and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship. His poems have appeared in TheNew York TimesMagazine, The New Republic, American Poetry Review, New England Review, and elsewhere. He teaches in the MFA program at William Paterson University in New Jersey, where he serves as director of the Writing Across the Curriculum program.