Christian Gullette is the author of Coachella Elegy, winner of the Trio House Press Trio Award. In The Washington Post Book Club, Ron Charles praised Coachella Elegy writing, “These cool, elegantly controlled poems are about struggling to find peace in a frightening world.” And Publishers Weekly lauded the book as “Tender and deliciously sly…Gullette delivers a nuanced, well-paced collection.”Coachella Elegy has also been included in LitHub, Electric Lit, Alta, and Debutiful lists of must-read poetry collections for 2024. His poems have appeared in The Washington Post, The American Poetry Review, The Yale Review, Kenyon Review, New England Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. He is the recipient of a 2022 Bread Loaf scholarship. Christian also works as a Swedish-to-English translator. He’ll be a poetry faculty member for the 2025 Kenyon Review Winter Online Writers Workshops. Christian also serves as the editor-in-chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco with his husband Michael.

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