Christopher Nelson

Poet

Grinnell, IA
Iowa US
Email: 
nelsonc003@gmail.com
Website: 
www.christophernelson.info

Author's Bio

Christopher Nelson is the author of Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021) and six chapbooks, including Blue House, winner of a Poetry Society of America Fellowship. A recipient of the Amy Lowell Traveling Scholarship, he is the founding editor of Green Linden Press, a nonprofit publisher dedicated to poetic excellence and reforestation. He has edited two anthologies, Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora—recipient of a Midwest Book Award—and Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry. Visit christophernelson.info.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry (Green Linden Press, 2024)
,
Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora (Green Linden Press, 2021)
Book:
Blood Aria (University of Wisconsin Press, 2021)
Chapbooks:
Fugitive (New Michigan Press, 2024)
,
Windshear (Jacar Press, 2024)
,
Love Song for the New World (Seven Kitchens Press, 2019)
,
Capital City at Midnight (Bloom, 2016)
,
Blue House (Poetry Society of America, 2009)
Prizes won: 

Amy Lowell Travelling Scholarship
Goethe-Institut Grant
New American Poets Fellowship (Poetry Society of America) 
 

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last update: Jan 27, 2026