Chris Forhan

Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and professor at Butler University,[1] author most recently, of My Father Before Me, published by Simon and Schuster.[2] Each of his full-length poetry collections has won an award: Black Leapt In, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, the Morse Poetry Prize, and Bakeless Prize, respectively.[3]

Forhan has had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI online, Poetry,[4] Slate,[5] and The Paris Review. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts[6] and two Pushcart Prizes.[7] He has also won the Washington State Book Award and the Best Book of Indiana Award. His books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly,[8] Kirkus Reviews,[9] Library Journal,[10] and New York Journal of Books.[11] He has been interviewed by Superstition Review,[12] Bellingham Review,[13] and Midwestern Gothic.[14]