After obtaining a B.A. in Communications from the University of Michigan, Chris returned to Ann Arbor where he received an MFA in Poetry. He currently teaches at the University of Michigan in the Sweetland Center for Writing. His pedagogical interests involve the inner workings of poetry, sport, and revision. His teaching practices are inspired by these topics, inviting play, improvisation, collaboration, and self-direction into the classroom. Technology and social media influence his newly created courses on sports media and hot takes, Instapoetry’s connections to a greater writing world, and joy and gratitude’s place in first-year writing.

In his writing life, his debut poetry collection, The Kin Of Nakedness (Four Way Books, 2026) centers around the definitions of work and what it means to complain to the self and a community. Another is in the works that revolves around form. On the fiction side, he has completed a comedic literary fiction novel manuscript. While he’s querying that novel, he’s writing a second.

Chris’s prose and syntax is inspired by many, including Jon Fosse, lucille clifton, Douglas Kearney, and David Foster Wallace. He’s driven to examine the world and to make you laugh with him.