Christopher R. Vaughan (he/him) is a poet, educator, and sustainable transportation advocate and organizer who believes deeply in the power of connecting through our stories. His poems and poetry reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including The Cincinnati Review, Great River Review, Kenyon Review Online, Hawai’i-Pacific Review, Off the Coast, and Del Sol Review, and been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award. He was a winner of the 2020 Princemere Poetry Prize and has received support from the Community of Writers, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, Indiana University Writers’ Conference, and Minnesota Northwoods Writers Conference. He was a Fellow in the Loft Mentor Series in Poetry and Creative Prose in 2022-23. He lives with his family in Minneapolis.
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