Chris Santiago

Chris Santiago is the author of Tula, selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry and published by Milkweed Editions. A 2018 McKnight Writing Fellow, he has new work forthcoming in Copper Nickel, Interim, Couplet Poetry, and Action, Spectacle. He has also received fellowships from Kundiman and the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies and was a finalist for a 2017 Minnesota Book Award. An associate professor of English at the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, he received his PhD from the University of Southern California. In February 2019, Say Home, his collaboration with composer Lembit Beecher and ethnographer Todd Lawrence, received its world premiere by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. He teaches creative writing, worldbuilding, and Asian American literature.