Chris Forhan
Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and professor at Butler University, author most recently, of My Father Before Me, published by Simon and Schuster. Each of his full-length poetry collections has won an award: Black Leapt In, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, the Morse Poetry Prize, and Bakeless Prize, respectively. Forhan has had poems published in The Best American Poetry 2008, AGNI online, Poetry, Slate, and The Paris Review.
Chris Forhan
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- 1959 · United States.
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He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts and two Pushcart Prizes. He has also won the Washington State Book Award and the Best Book of Indiana Award. He has been interviewed by Superstition Review, Bellingham Review, and Midwestern Gothic.
He was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. He is married to the poet Alessandra Lynch, and they live in Indianapolis with their sons.
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Memoir • My Father Before Me: A Memoir (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2016) Full-length Poetry Collections • Black Leapt In (Barrow Street Press, 2009) • The Actual Moon, the Actual Stars (Northeastern University Press, 2003) • Forgive Us Our Happiness (University Press of New England, 1999) Chapbook • Ransack and Dance: Poems (Silver Birch Press, 2013) • X: A Poem (Floating Bridge Press, 2000) • Crumbs of Bread (March Street Press, 1995)
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- 1.Butler University | MFA Faculty | Chris Forhan
- 2.Simon & Schuster | Books | My Father Before Me/Chris Forhan
- 3.Poets & Writers Directory | Chris Forhan
- 4.Poetry Foundation | Poets | Chris Forhan
- 5.Slate Poems by Chris Forhan
- 6.National Endowment for the Arts | Creative Writing Fellows | 2007 Poetry | Chris Forhan
- 7.Poetry Foundation | Poets | Chris Forhan
- 8.Publishers Weekly | Book Review | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | 07/18/2016
- 9.Kirkus | Book Reviews | Forgive Us Our Happiness by Chris Forhan | November 1, 1999
- 10.Library Journal | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | Reviewed by Derek Sanderson July 21, 2016
- 11.New York Journal of Books | My Father Before Me: A Memoir by Chris Forhan | Reviewed by Beth Kephart
- 12.Superstition Review | Issue 18 | A Flat Figure: An Interview with Chris Forhan
- 13.Bellingham Review | Contributor Spotlight: Chris Forhan | May 2, 2018
- 14.Midwestern Gothic | Chris Forhan Interview | by Megan Valley | April 2017
- 15.Poets & Writers Directory | Chris Forhan
- 16.Barrow Street Press | Black Leapt In, Chris Forhan
- 17.Penn State University Libraries Catalog | Forgive Us Our Happiness, Chris Forhan
- 18.Silver Birch Press | Ransack and Dance, Chris Forhan
- 19.Floating Bridge Press | X: A Poem, Chris Forhan
- 20.Open Library | Crumbs of Bread by Chris Forhan
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