Christopher Santiago

Chris Santiago is the author of Small Wars Manual, published by Milkweed Editions in April, and Tula, winner of the Lindquist & Vennum Prize. His poems have appeared in The Nation, POETRY, the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Series, Copper Nickel, and American Public Media’s The Slowdown. A 2025 NEA Poetry Fellow and past fellow of the McKnight Foundation, the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, and Kundiman, he received his PhD from USC and teaches at CalArts. He lives in Pasadena with his wife and two sons.