Christopher Stephen Soden is a native Texan. Christopher received his MFA in Writing (Poetry) from Vermont College in January of 2005. He has taught classes and guest lectured on the subjects of craft, theory, genre, literature and publication. He is a writer, teacher, critic, lecturer and performer. He currently writes theatre critique for Examiner.com, PegasusNews.com, John Garcia's The Column and A + C DFW. He has written poetry, plays, performance pieces, literary, film and theatre critique. His honors include: Full Fellowship for Lambda Literary Retreat: Emerging LGBT Voices August 2010. Distinguished Poets of Dallas, Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion Series, Founding Member, President and President Emeritus of The Dallas Poets Community. His work has appeared in : A Face to Meet the Faces, Resilience, The Q Review, Polari Journal, Reckless Writing, Assaracus, Poetic Voices Without Boundaries 2, Ganymede, Ganymede Poets : One, Gay City 2, The Café Review, The Texas Observer, Sentence, Borderlands, Off the Rocks, The James White Review, The New Writer, Velvet Mafia, Poetry Super Highway, Gertrude, Touch of Eros, Gents, Bad Boys and Barbarians, Windy City Times, ArLiJo, Best Texas Writing 2.

Closer (Rebel Satori Press, 2011)