Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985. He is the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland and the author of seven books, including A AND B AND ALSO NOTHING (Otis Books Seismicity Editions, 2020), THE INTERNET IS FOR REAL (C&R Press, 2019), and DEATH OF ART (C&R Press, 2016). Recent work has appeared in Ambit, Nat. Brut, Poetry International, RHINO Poetry, Hayden's Ferry Review, and DIAGRAM, and has been translated into Spanish and Portuguese. He teaches at Pace University and Baruch College, and edits PANK, At Large Magazine, and Tupelo Quarterly. His selected poetry was awarded an Academy of American Poets College Prize in 2013, his novel Going Down was named Best First Book at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, and his hybrid piece This body's long (& I'm still loading) was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival in 2017. In 2019, he was awarded a CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute fellowship to join the Consortium for the Transnational Joint Research Center for Migration, Logistics, and Cultural Intervention.
