Chris Forhan

Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and professor at Butler University,Butler University | MFA Faculty | Chris Forhan author most recently, of My Father Before Me, published by Simon and Schuster.Simon & Schuster | Books | My Father Before Me/Chris Forhan 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.Poets & Writers Directory | Chris Forhan

Forhan has had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI online, Poetry,Poetry Foundation | Poets | Chris Forhan Slate,Slate Poems by Chris Forhan and The Paris Review. He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the ArtsNational Endowment for the Arts | Creative Writing Fellows | 2007 Poetry | Chris Forhan and two Pushcart Prizes.Poetry Foundation | Poets | Chris Forhan He has also won the Washington State Book Award and the Best Book of Indiana Award. His books have been reviewed in Publishers Weekly,Publishers Weekly | Book Review | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | 07/18/2016 Kirkus Reviews,Kirkus | Book Reviews | Forgive Us Our Happiness by Chris Forhan | November 1, 1999 Library Journal,Library Journal | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | Reviewed by Derek Sanderson July 21, 2016 and New York Journal of Books.New York Journal of Books | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | Reviewed by Beth Kephart He has been interviewed by Superstition Review,Superstition Review | Issue 18 | A Flat Figure: An Interview with Chris Forhan Bellingham Review,Bellingham Review | Contributor Spotlight: Chris Forhan | May 2, 2018 and Midwestern Gothic.Midwestern Gothic | Chris Forhan Interview | by Megan Valley | April 2017

Personal life He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He is married to the poet Alessandra Lynch, and they live in Indianapolis with their sons.Poets & Writers Directory | Chris Forhan

Published works Memoir My Father Before Me: A Memoir (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016)

Full-length Poetry Collections Black Leapt In (Barrow Street Press, 2009)Barrow Street Press | Black Leapt In, Chris Forhan The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars (Northeastern University Press, 2003) Forgive Us Our Happiness (University Press of New England, 1999)Penn State University Libraries Catalog | Forgive Us Our Happiness, Chris Forhan Chapbook Ransack and Dance: Poems (Silver Birch Press, 2013)Silver Birch Press | Ransack and Dance, Chris Forhan X: A Poem (Floating Bridge Press, 2000)Floating Bridge Press | X: A Poem, Chris Forhan Crumbs of Bread (March Street Press, 1995)Open Library | Crumbs of Bread by Chris Forhan

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