Christopher Howell’s twelfth collection of poems, The Grief of a happy Life, was published in 2019 by the University of Washington Press. His new volume, Book of Beginnings and Ends, is forthcoming this spring from Stephen F. Austin University Press. Other work may be found in over forty anthologies, and, recently, in the pages of New Letters, Poetry International, the Gettysburg Review, The Birmingham Poetry Review, I-70 Review, and Image. He is director and principal editor for Lynx House Press and lives in Spokane, Washington.