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Christopher Salerno (born June 13, 1975) is an American Poet, Editor, and Assistant Professor of English at William Paterson University where he co-founded and co-edits Map Literary, a literary magazine supported by William Paterson University’s English Department. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently, ATM, selected by D.A. Powell for the 2013 Georgetown Review Poetry Prize. His second book, Minimum Heroic, was selected by Dara Wier for the Mississippi Review Poetry Prize in 2010. Other honors include the 2013 Midwest/Laurel Review Prize for a chapbook of poems, Automatic Teller. His first book of poems, Whirligig, was published by Spuyten Duyvil Publishing House (NY) in 2006. His poetry has been published in literary journals and magazines including Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Fence, jubilat, The Journal, American Letters and Commentary, Coconut, Octopus, and others.

Born in Somerville, NJ, Salerno has lived in Cazenovia, NY, Greenville, NC, Raleigh, NC, and Caldwell, NJ. He received his MA from East Carolina University and his MFA from Bennington College in Vermont. He currently resides in Caldwell, NJ where he teaches in the creative writing and MFA programs at William Paterson University.