Christopher Munde is the author of the poetry collection Slippage (Tebot Bach 2019).  His poetry has 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, and is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize and the Patricia Bibby Award.  Presently, he lives in western NY, and teaches at Jamestown Community College.