Christopher Locke’s poems & essays have appeared in such magazines as The North American Review, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Parents, Poetry East, Verse Daily, Southwest Review, Slice, The Literary Review, The Sun, West Branch, Gargoyle, 32 Poems, Saranac Review, Southeast Review, and NPR’s Morning Edition and Ireland’s Radio One. His latest book of travel writing is Ordinary Gods, (Salmon Poetry—2017). His first post-punk/spoken word album, Late Lights, was recently released by Burst & Bloom Records. Locke has received over a dozen grants, fellowships, and awards for his poetry including the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Award, state grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, and Poetry Fellowships from Fundacion Valparaiso, (Spain) and PARMA (Mexico). He teaches creative writing online at The Poetry Barn and in person at both North Country Community College and Ray Brook Federal Prison in the Adirondacks.