Chris Bursk, recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew Fellowships, is the author of nine books including his most recent, The First Inhabitants of Arcadia from the University of Arkansas Press, 2006. In addition to having worked as a volunteer for three decades in the corrections system, with those on probation and parole, he is currently a professor of language and literature at Bucks County Community College. His work has appeared in magazines such as Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, Manhattan Review, and The Sun. His poem, “Ovid at Fifteen,” won the Another Chicago Magazine Award, judged by Robert Dana. Chris has won numerous awards for his humanitarian and literary efforts including Bucks County Citizen of the Year and Poet Laureate of Bucks County. His The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronouns won the Bright Hill Chapbook competition and is scheduled for publication in the Spring, 2011. He is most importantly the grandfather of six.

The First Inhabitants of Arcadia (University of Arkansas Press, 2006), The Improbable Swerving of Atoms (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Cell Count (Texas Tech University Press, 1997), The One True Religion (Quarterly Review of Literature, 1997), The Way Water Rubs Stone (Word Works, 1989), Places of Justice (San Jose Poetry Center Press, 1987), Making Wings (State Street Press, 1983)

American Poetry Review, Places of Comfort