Description: Christopher Linforth is a professor and the author of three story collections, The Distortions (Orison Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Orison Books Fiction Prize, Directory (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020), and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (Lamar University Press, 2014). Christopher's stories have been published in more than one hundred literary magazines.…
Home The Distortions Consulting Directory About Christopher Linforth is the author of three story collections, The Distortions (Orison Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Orison Books Fiction Prize, Directory (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2020), and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (Lamar University Press, 2014). Christopher holds a Ph.D. and MFA and has worked with Ed Falco, Lucinda Roy, Denis Johnson, Rick Moody, Aimee Parkison, and Andre Dubus III, among others. In the last few years, he has been awarded
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Recently, Christopher has published essays in The Millions , Quarter After Eight , The Pinch , South Dakota Review , Sonder Magazine , Sierra Nevada Review , Whiskey Island, twice in the University of East Anglia’s Hinterland , and in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2021). His book reviews have appeared in World Literature Today , New Pages , Necessary Fiction , The Rumpus , Southern Review of Books , Rain Taxi , the Colorado Review , and other outlets.