Christopher Citro is the author of The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His poetry has been published in Ploughshares, Crazyhorse, The Missouri Review, Gulf Coast, Best New Poets, and elsewhere. His creative nonfiction has appeared in Boulevard, Quarterly West, Passages North, and Colorado Review. His awards include a 2018 Pushcart Prize for poetry and first place in the 2015 Poetry Competition at Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art. Christopher is the poetry editor for decomP magazinE and an adjunct professor of English at State University of New York at Oswego.  

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