Christopher Howell

He also attended Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. Starting in 1972, Howell served as the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press, which awards the Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry. Lynx House was founded in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA in the 1970s by Howell, along with David Lyon and Helena Minton. In 1996 the press moved to its present location in Spokane, Washington where, in 2005, it became an impress of Eastern Washington University Press; in 2010 it became an independent and non-profit literary publisher. The press, in addition to hosting the Blue Lynx Prize, also publishes other books of poetry. Howell is also editor of Willow Springs Books, director of the former Eastern Washington University Press, and on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University. His daughter, Emma Howell, was an aspiring poet and student at Oberlin College who died at age 20 in June 2001. Her family published her poems posthumously in a volume titled Slim Night of Recognition.

Christopher Howell studied at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Oregon State University and Portland State University. The recorded working language is English. Places of work recorded in the authority are Amherst and Spokane. Residence is recorded at Spokane. Employment is recorded with Eastern Washington University Press, Eastern Washington University and Lynx House Press. Work by Christopher Howell is recorded in the collections of Oregon Poetry Collection. Distinctions recorded are Washington State Book Award.

• The Crime of Luck • Sweet Afton: Poems • Sea Change • Though Silence: The Ling Wei Poems • Memory and Heaven • Just Waking • Light's Ladder • Dreamless and Possible: Poems New and Selected • Gaze

Howell's poems have been anthologized (including twice in the Pushcart Anthology) and have appeared in journals, including Harper's, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest and The Gettysburg Review.