Chip Livingston is a gay, mixed blood Creek writer, uncle, and author of three books: two poetry collections, CROW-BLUE, CROW-BLACK and MUSEUM OF FALSE STARTS; and a forthcoming collection of short stories, NAMING CEREMONY. His poetry, fiction, and nonfiction appear in Ploughshares, Court Green, New American Writing, The Cincinnati Review, The Potomac Review, and Subtropics, and the anthologies, Best New Poets 2005, Stories from the Blue Moon Café, and Sing: Poetry of the Indigenous Americas. He received his M.F.A. in poetry from Brooklyn College, his MA in fiction from University of Colorado, and has been awarded residencies at Wildacres and Soul Mountain retreats. He has received awards from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers, Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas, as well as three Pushcart Prize nominations. He currently lives in Montevideo, Uruguay, from where he edits and teaches writing online. In 2014 Chip joins the low-rez MFA faculty at Institute of American Indian Arts.

Museum of False Starts (Gival Press, 2010), ALARUM: (Other Rooms Press, 2007)

Best Gay Poetry 2008 (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2009), Off the Rocks (New Town Writers, 2009), A Cast of Characters and Other Stories (MacAdam Cage, 2007), A Cast of Characters and Other Stories (MacAdam/Cage, 2006), Best New Poets 2005 (Meridian, 2006), Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, Volume 3 (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe, Volume 4 (MacAdam/Cage, 2005), Velvet Heat (Pretty Things Press, 2004), This New Breed: Gents, Bad Boys & Barbarians 2 (Windstorm Creative, 2003)

Apalachee Review, Argestes, Art & Understanding, Barrow Street, Blithe House Quarterly, Bloom, Brooklyn Review, Cimarron Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Court Green, Crazyhorse, Drunken Boat, Eleven Eleven, Front Porch Journal, Gay and Lesbian Review, Georgetown Review, Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, Hazmat Review, Illumen, Life Writing, Lodestar Quarterly, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, MiPOesias, Mississippi Review, Mudfish, New American Writing, New York Quarterly, Pearl Magazine, Ploughshares, Queen City Review, Raven Chronicles, Rhino Magazine, Rosebud, Smartish Pace, Sniper Logic, Subtropics, The Cincinnati Review, The Florida Review, The Literary Review, The Potomac Review, The Talking Stick, Yellow Medicine Review