Poetry. "These are poems of the self and other, and the language...both joins and separates them in pain, humor, and sometimes beauty."—Toby Olson

"There's so much here to hold one's attention...."—Seth Fritchie

Author City: PHILADELPHIA, PA USA

Chris McCreary is the author of two previous full-length collections, THE EFFACEMENTS (Singing Horse Press) and Dismembers (ixnay press), in addition to several chapbooks, including SAMSON AGONISTEASE (Potes & Poets Press). Along with his wife Jenn McCreary, he has co-edited ixnay press for over a decade, publishing numerous chapbooks, eight issues of ixnay magazine, and four installments of a "mini-anthology" entitled the ixnay reader. Chris has reviewed fiction, poetry, and poetics for venues such as Rain Taxi, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Review of Contemporary Fiction, and he has published his own short fiction in New Review of Literature and elsewhere. He holds an MA in Creative Writing from Temple University, and he teaches at a private high school outside of Philadelphia, where he lives with Jenn and their twin sons.