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 honors include a Pushcart Prize for poetry, Columbia Journal's poetry award, and a creative nonfiction award from The Florida Review. His poems appear widely in literary magazines and journals such as American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, West Branch, and Alaska Quarterly Review. His fiction appears in The Spectacle, and The Cincinnati Review. His creative nonfiction appears in Boulevard, Southeast Review, Quarterly West, Passages North, Bellingham Review, and Colorado Review. His writing has been anthologized in Best New Poets 2014, New Poetry from the Midwest 2019, Best Microfiction 2020, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in sunny Syracuse, New York.
