User:Theballoon/Connor Stratman (poet)

Connor Stratman (b. 1988, Dallas, TX) is an American poet. His books and chapbooks include invisible entrances (erbacce-press, 2010), An Early Scratch (erbacce-press, 2011) and Some Were Awake (Plumberries Press, 2011). His collection, An Early Scratch, won the 2010 Erbacce Press Prize for Poetry.

Born in Dallas, Texas, Stratman graduated from Jesuit College Preparatory in 2007 and received his B.A. in English from Loyola University Chicago in 2011.

His poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines such as Scythe, The Toronto Quarterly, Etcetera, Otoliths, and ditch.

In the summer of 2011, Stratman embarked on a East Coast tour to promote Some Were Awake, along with poets Edwin R. Perry, J.S. Makkos, and Joseph Bienvenu.