Chris Forhan is the author of BLACK LEAPT IN, winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize; The Actual Moon, The Actual Stars, winner of the Morse Prize and the Washington State Book Award; and Forgive Us Our Happiness, co-winner of the Bakeless Prize. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and two Pushcart Prizes, and his work appears in The Best American Poetry 2008. He teaches at Butler University in Indianapolis, where he lives with his wife, the poet Alessandra Lynch, and their son, Milo.