Christopher Stewart is the author of What Came After (The Calliope Group) and co-author (with Quraysh Ali Lansana) of The Walmart Republic (Mongrel Empire Press). His poems have appeared in RHINO, Five Points, Comstock Review, Plainsongs, Bellevue Literary Review, Connecticut River Review, Eastern Iowa Review, Atlanta Review, and elsewhere. He is the recipient of the RHINO Poetry Founder’s Prize and a Pushcart Prize.