Christopher Kennedy is the author of The Strange God Who Makes Us (2024), Clues from the Animal Kingdom (2018), Ennui Prophet (2011), Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (2007), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, each published by BOA Editions, Ltd. He is one of the translators of Light and Heavy Things: Selected Poems of Zeeshan Sahil (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2013), published as part of the Lannan Translation Series. His work has appeared in many print and online journals, inlcuding Ploughshares, The Progressive, Plume, Ninth Letter, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, and McSweeney's. In 2011, he was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. He is a professor of English in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Syracuse University.
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