Craig Crist-Evans (1954-) Biography

Agent—Linda Pratt, Sheldon Fogelman Agency, 10 East 40th St., New York, NY 10016.

Writer and poet. Poet in the Schools for Colorado, 1992-97; teacher of independent writing program in Colorado schools; Vermont College, cofounder and director of M.F.A. program in writing for children, 1990-92, director of marketing and admissions, 1998-2000; Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA, currently director of writing center and English teacher.

Moon over Tennessee: A Boy's Civil War Journal, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1999.

Amaryllis, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2003.

Shadow of My Father's Hand, Breakfast Serials, 2004.

North of Everything, Candlewick Press (Cambridge, MA), 2004.

No Guarantee, New Rivers Press (Minneapolis, MN), 2004.

Contributor to Paris Review, Nebraska Review, Cimmarron Review, and Prague Review. Contributing editor, Bloomsbury Review, 1990—.

The novels Feather in the Wind, Bull Ring, and Valley of the Cranes; Birds of a Feather, a collection of poems for young readers; If You Ever Get Lost in the Woods, a picture-book text; Land This Hard, a second poetry collection; Manthology: Poems of the Male Experience, an anthology coedited with Roger Weingarten.