Christopher Shipman lives in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature & creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in The Goodbye Horses. Shipman’s work appears in journals such as Fence, New Ohio Review, Poetry Magazine, Sixth Finch, & The Southern Review, among many others. His poem “The Three-Year Crossing” was a winner of the 2015 Big Bridges Prize, judged by Alice Quinn, and he has twice won the Editor’s Choice for Rattle’s ekphrastic challenge. Shipman has been a finalist for a Courage to Write grant from the de Groot Foundation, has been nominated three times for a Pushcart, & his work has been supported by the North Carolina Arts Council. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities, and he is the author or coauthor of six books and four chapbooks. Mortar, his most recent collection, won the 2024 Brick Road Poetry Prize. More @ www.cshipmanwriting.com