Episode 13: Christian J. Collier (Of Chattanooga, Names, and Horror)

Christian J. Collier, author of The Gleaming of the Blade (Bull City Press, 2022)

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Read: Christian’s poem “when my days fill with ghosts” at Hayden’s Ferry Review, which Christian reads on the episode.

Christian J. Collier is a Black, Southern writer, arts organizer, and teaching artist who resides in Chattanooga, TN. His works have appeared or are forthcoming in Hayden’s Ferry Review,The Michigan Quarterly ReviewAtlanta ReviewGrist Journal, and elsewhere. A 2015 Loft Spoken Word Immersion Fellow, he is also the winner of the 2020 ProForma Contest and the 2019-2020 Seven Hills Review Poetry Contest.

Pre-order Christian’s chapbook The Gleaming of the Blade (Bull City Press, 2022)