American poet and professor
Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and professor at Butler University,[1] author most recently, of My Father Before Me, published by Simon and Schuster.[2] Each of his full-length poetry collections has won an award: Black Leapt In, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, the Morse Poetry Prize, and Bakeless Prize, respectively.[3]
Forhan has had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI online, Poetry,[4] Slate,[5] and The Paris Review. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts[6] and two Pushcart Prizes.[7] He has also won the Washington State Book Award and the Best Book of Indiana Award. His books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly,[8] Kirkus Reviews,[9] Library Journal,[10] and New York Journal of Books.[11] He has been interviewed by Superstition Review,[12] Bellingham Review,[13] and Midwestern Gothic.[14]
Personal life
He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He is married to the poet Alessandra Lynch, and they live in Indianapolis with their sons.[15]
Published works
Memoir
Full-length Poetry Collections
Chapbook
- Ransack and Dance: Poems (Silver Birch Press, 2013)[18]
- X: A Poem (Floating Bridge Press, 2000)[19]
- Crumbs of Bread (March Street Press, 1995)[20]
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