Christopher Kondrich is the author of Valuing (University of Georgia Press, 2019), a winner of the National Poetry Series, and Contrapuntal (Free Verse Editions, 2013). His recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in AGNI, Los Angeles Review of Books, the Paris Review, the New York Review of Books, TriQuarterly, and the Yale Review. Co-editor of Creature Conserve: Writers Respond to the Science of Animal Conservation (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), he teaches poetry for Eastern Oregon University’s low-residency MFA program.