A recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew Fellowships, Christopher Bursk is the author of eleven books, including The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronoun, Cell Count, and The Improbable Swervings of Atoms, winner of the Donald Hall prize in Poetry from AWP. His poems have won the Patterson Prize, the Green Rose Prize, Another Chicago Magazine Award, 49th Parallel Award from Bellingham Review, New Letters Prize in Poetry, and the 2011 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Bursk has taught at Bucks County Community College for over forty years. Most importantly, he is the grandfather of six.