Christopher Munde’s first poetry collection, Slippage (Tebot Bach), won the Patricia Bibby Award, and his poems have previously appeared in Blackbird, The Literary Review, Massachusetts Review, Third Coast, West Branch Wired, and elsewhere.  He is a graduate of the University of Houston’s MFA program, the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a recent finalist for the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize.  Presently, he lives and teaches in western NY.