CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), a winner of the National Poetry Series and a Library Journal best book of the year, 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, and The Yale Review. He has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the I-Park Foundation, the University of Denver, and Columbia University. 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 MFA program.