Christopher Munde’s first poetry collection, Slippage (Tebot Bach, 2019), won the Patricia Bibby Award, and his poems have previously appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Blackbird, Massachusetts Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, West Branch Wired, and elsewhere.  A graduate of the University of Houston’s MFA program and recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, he teaches at Jamestown Community College, where he received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in 2026.