Christopher Kondrich is the author of three books of poetry, including Tread Upon (forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press) and Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), selected by Jericho Brown as a winner of the National Poetry Series. His poems have been published in The New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Yale Review, and have been supported by fellowships from MacDowell, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and Yaddo. He is currently Visiting Poet in Residence in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Maryland. Coeditor of Creature Needs: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation and associate editor for 32 Poems, he lives in University Park, Maryland, with his family.