Chris Forhan is a poet, memoirist, and professor at Butler University,[1] author most recently, of My Father Before Me, published by Simon and Schuster.
[2] Each of his full-length poetry collections has won an award: Black Leapt In, The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, and Forgive Us Our Happiness, which won the Barrow Street Press Poetry Prize, the Morse Poetry Prize, and Bakeless Prize, respectively.
He has received a fellowship from the National Endowment of the Arts[6] and two Pushcart Prizes.
He is married to the poet Alessandra Lynch, and they live in Indianapolis with their sons.
[15] Memoir Full-length Poetry Collections Chapbook