Christopher Salerno  (author of Deathbed Sext, Two Sylvias Press, 2020)
​Winner of the 2019 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, judged by Maggie Smith
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Christopher Salerno is the author of five books of poems and the editor of Saturnalia Books. His most recent collection is Sun & Urn, selected by the late Thomas Lux for the Georgia Poetry Prize at University of Georgia Press. His forthcoming book, The Man Grave, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books and will be published in 2021. Previous book include ATM (Georgetown Review Prize), Minimum Heroic (Mississippi Review Poetry Prize), and Whirligig (2006). His trade book, How To Write Poetry: A Guided Journal, was recently published by Callisto Media. His poems have been a recipient of the Prairie Schooner Glenna Luschei Award, The Founders Prize from RHINO magazine, the Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, the Laurel Review Chapbook Prize, and a New Jersey State Council on the Arts fellowship. Other poems can be found in the New York Times Magazine, New Republic, American Poetry Review, New England Review, The Academy of American Poets series, and elsewhere. He lives in New Jersey where he is a Professor of English at William Paterson University in the BA and MFA writing programs. He can be reached at www. csalernopoet.com

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