Christopher Brooks lives in Shawnee, Oklahoma, with his wife Jennifer, daughter Tansy, dog Georgia and Harley-Davidson Lucinda. His educational background is in anthropology and archaeology, specializing in the prehistory of the southwestern United States. He is a Navy veteran and works in civil service, where he's served in Afghanistan. Christopher's poetry appears in Flint Hills Review, Red Earth Review, Dragon Poet Review, Blue Collar Review, The Furious Gazelle and SLANT: A Journal of Poetry. One of his proudest achievements was to be chosen as a 2017 Woody Guthrie Poet. Christopher's work also appears on the website Jaspersatellite.blogspot.com, which is a manifestation of his sprit via poetry, prose and photography.