Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series, by Library Journal as a Best Poetry Book of 2019, and was a finalist for The Believer Book Award; and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). His recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Los Angeles Review of Books, New England Review, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, The New York Review of Books, TriQuarterly, and The Yale Review.
He has received fellowships from MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the I-Park Foundation, the University of Denver, and Columbia University. He is co-editor of Creature Conserve: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) and an associate editor for 32 Poems. He teaches poetry for Eastern Oregon University's low-residency M.F.A. program.
At MacDowell in 2021, Kondrich wrote new poems to be included in a book-length sequence Tread Upon, which would be his third book following his collection Valuing. Other poems from the same book-length sequence were published in The Paris Review and New England Review. During his 2024 residency, he wrote poems toward the completion of a new manuscript about climate change, capitalism, and the ways in which human supremacy has poisoned our relationship to the living world.
Portrait by Dave Glanz
