Christopher P Semtner

Visual artist, author and curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Christopher P. Semtner has curated and designed critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country. Semtner has also written several books and chapters on topics including Poe, visual art and crime fiction in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Crime Writers' Chronicle and other publications. He has been interviewed for BBC4, PBS and NPR and featured in publications including the New York...See more

Visual artist, author and curator of the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, Christopher P. Semtner has curated and designed critically acclaimed exhibits for museums and galleries across the country. Semtner has also written several books and chapters on topics including Poe, visual art and crime fiction in addition to contributing articles to Biography.com, Crime Writers' Chronicle and other publications. He has been interviewed for BBC4, PBS and NPR and featured in publications including the New York Times and Forbes . He regularly speaks about strange and macabre subjects at various venues from the Steampunk World's Fair to the Library of Congress and as far away as Kyoto, Japan. See less