Christopher Citro is the author of If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (Elixir Press, 2021), winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award, and The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015). His poetry chapbook, The Box We Put the World in to Keep a Corner From Shattering, co-written with Steve Castro and Dustin Pearson, is forthcoming from the University of Toledo’s Aureole Press in 2025. His honors include a Pushcart Prize for poetry, a fellowship from the Ragdale Foundation, a poetry award from Columbia Journal, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poetry appears in 32 Poems, Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Bennington Review, Best New Poets, Denver Quarterly, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, Kenyon Review, Narrative, The Normal School, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, West Branch, and elsewhere. Christopher is an editorial assistant for Seneca Review and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.
