Chris Crowder is from Flint, Michigan and earned his MFA at the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Managing Editor for The Adroit Journal, his work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, The Georgia Review, MQR: Mixtape, Best New Poets, TriQuarterly, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Witness, the VS podcast, and elsewhere. His debut poetry collection is The Kin of Nakedness (Four Way Books, March 2026).

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