Chris Forhan

Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and essayist. His book A Mind Full of Music: Essays on Imagination and Popular Song was published by Overcup Press in 2022. He is also the author of the memoir My Father Before Me (Scribner, 2016) as well as books of poetry, including: Black Leapt In (Barrow Street Press, 2009), winner of a Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars (Northeastern University Press, 2003), winner of the 2003 Morse Poetry Prize and a Washington State Book Award; and Forgive Us Our Happiness (University Press of New England, 1999), winner of a Bakeless Prize. He has won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives in Indianapolis, where he teaches at Butler University.