C. L. O'Dell is currently an M.F.A. candidate in poetry at Manhattanville College where he served as the Poetry Editor for Inkwell. Recent poems have been published or are forthcoming in Barrow Street, New England Review and Ploughshares. He is the founder of The Paris-American, a poetry ezine and reading series at Poets House.

Asheville Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Euphony, Lilliput Review, Many Mountains Moving, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poem, The Texas Review