Our Authors

Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and he teaches Latino literature and creative writing at Baruch College and Pace University. His “Billboards” poem that responded to Latino stereotypes and mutable—and often muted—identity in the fashion world was awarded an Academy of American Poets College Prize in 2013, his novel Going Down was selected as Best First Book at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, and his hybrid piece “This body’s long (& I’m still loading)” was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival in 2017. A year earlier, he adapted his award-winning course, “Identity, Image, & Intimacy in the Age of the Internet,” for his first TEDx Talk. He edits PANK, At Large, and Tupelo Quarterly and lives in Brooklyn, where he wrote Death of Art, also available from C&R Press. www.chriscampanioni.com

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Christian Anton Gerard is the author of Holdfast (C&R Press, 2017) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella (WordTech, 2014). He’s received Pushcart Prize nominations, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference scholarships, the Iron Horse Literary Review’s Discovered Voices Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His work appears widely in magazines such as The Rumpus, Post Road, The Adroit Journal, Diode, Orion, Smartish Pace, and Thrush. Gerard holds an MFA from Old Dominion University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of Tennessee. He is an Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith. Gerard’s Website

Christopher Bundy‘s fiction and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Glimmer Train, Puerto del Sol, DIAGRAM,Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, The Collagist, and many other print and online publications. His work has also been anthologized, including the IPPY award-winning Expecting Goodness & Other Stories (Hub City Press, 2010), edited by C. Michael Curtis. Continue Reading →

Curtis Bauer is the author of two previous poetry collections—Fence Line (BkMk Press, 2004; winner of the John Ciardi Poetry Prize) and the bilingual Spanish Sketchbook (Ediciones en Huida, 2012)— and two collections of poetry in translation—Talisman, from the Spanish of José de María Romero Barea (Editorial Anantes, 2012) and Eros Is More, from the Spanish of Juan Antonio González Iglesias, forthcoming from Alice James Books in 2014. His poems and translations have appeared in The Southern Review, The Indiana Review, The Common and The American Poetry Review, among others. He is publisher and editor of Q Ave Press Chapbooks, the Spanish Translations Editor for From the Fishouse, and he teaches Creative Writing and Translation at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas and Seville, Spain.

Curtis L. Crisler was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. He received a BA in English, with a minor in Theatre, from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW, now PFW), and he received his MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. An award-winning poet/author, Crisler’s Doing Drive-Bys on How to Love in the Midwest won the C&R Press Award for poetry. His other books are (with Kevin McKelvey’s) Indiana Nocturnes: Our Rural and Urban Patchwork; THe GReY aLBuM [PoeMS], a Steel Toe Books open reading period selection; Don’t Moan So Much (Stevie): A Poetry Musiquarium;“This” Ameri-can-ah; Pulling Scabs, nominated for Pushcart. His YA books are Tough Boy Sonatas and Dreamist: a mixed-genre novel. His poetry chapbooks are Black Achilles; Wonderkind, nominated for a Pushcart; Soundtrack to Latchkey Boy; Spill, won a Keyhole Chapbook Award; and Burnt Offering of a City, won the Kathy Young Chapbook Award. Crisler’s awarded fellowships and residencies are from the City of Asylum/ Pittsburgh (COA/P), a Cave Canem (Fellow), the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA), Soul Mountain, a guest resident at Hamline University, a guest resident at Words on the Go, and Writer-in-Residence (Writers @ The Carr Program) sponsored by Poets & Writers, INC. Crisler’s awarded grants and awards are a Library Scholars Grant Award, a RHINO Founder’s Award, Indiana Arts Commission Grants, Eric Hoffer Awards, the Sterling Plumpp First Voices Poetry Award, and he was nominated for the Eliot Rosewater Award and a Jessie Redmon Fauset Book Award. He’s been a Contributing Poetry Editor for Aquarius Press and a Poetry Editor for Human Equity through Art (HEArt). Crisler is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne. Contact him for readings, workshops, presentations, panels, etc., at poetcrisler.com.

Recipient of the 2023 C&R Press Nonfcition Award, and a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow, Dale Corvino found his voice at the underground literary salon “Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth.” In 2018, he won the Gertrude Press Fiction contest, judged by Whiting Award recipient Brontez Purnell. Recent nonfiction includes a profile of Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review, an essay on queer longing in the digital era for Matt Keegan’s 1996, and a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society. BONDS & BOUNDARIES, his debut short story collection, was released in 2023 from Rebel Satori Press. Find out more about the author at dalecorvino.com

Dannie Ruth is a poet from Washington, D.C. and earned an MFA from The New School. Her poetry has been published in Sequoya, Toho Journal, and The Inquisitive Eater. Inside the Orb of an Oracle is her first published chapbook, which won the Summer Tide Pool Chapbook Prize with C&R press.

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David Dominguez’s first book of poetry, Work Done Right, was published by the University of Arizona Press in 2003. Dominguez’s poems have appeared in journals such as The Bloomsbury Review, Crab Orchard Review, Poet Lore, and The Southern Review. His work has been anthologized in Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California, Breathe: 101 Contemporary Odes, and The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry, among others. He earned his B.A. in comparative literature from the University of California at Irvine and his M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Arizona. He teaches composition and poetry writing at Reedley College and is the co-founder and poetry editor of The Packinghouse Review.

Originally from White Plains, New York, David R. Slavitt is a poet, novelist, critic, and translator who was authored over 100 literary works. Receiving his education from Andover, Yale, and Columbia, he is coeditor of the Johns Hopkins Complete Roman Drama in Translations series and the Penn Greek Drama Series. His honors include a Pennsylvania Council on Arts award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in translation, an award in literature from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and a Rockefeller Foundation Artist’s Residence. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and has taught at Columbia, Princeton, Bennington, and the University of Pennsylvania.

His new novel, Shiksa, is forthcoming from C&R Press.

Debra Di Blasi is the author of eight books, including, Selling the Farm: Descants from a Recollected Past; Today Is the Day That Will Matter: An Oral History of the New America: #AlternativeFictions; and Drought & Say What You Like, which won the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. Her writing appears in anthologies of innovative writing and in many prominent journals. She is a former publisher, educator, and art columnist. Learn more at debradiblasi.com

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