Christopher Hennessy

Christopher Hennessy is the author of Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (University of Michigan Press). He earned an MFA from Emerson College, and currently is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was included in the Ploughshares ' special Emerging Writers edition, and his poetry, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in American Poetry Review , Verse , Cimarron Review , The Writer's Chronicle , The Bloomsbury Review ,...See more

Christopher Hennessy is the author of Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (University of Michigan Press). He earned an MFA from Emerson College, and currently is a Ph.D. candidate in English Literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He was included in the Ploughshares ' special Emerging Writers edition, and his poetry, interviews, and book reviews have appeared in American Poetry Review , Verse , Cimarron Review , The Writer's Chronicle , The Bloomsbury Review , Court Green , OCHO , Crab Orchard Review , Natural Bridge , Wisconsin Review , Brooklyn Review , Memorious , and elsewhere. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in anthologies of gay poets, persona poetry, and poets of social justice. Hennessy is a longtime associate editor for The Gay and Lesbian Review- Worldwide . See less