Chris Campanioni is a first-generation American and the son of immigrants from Cuba and Poland. He has worked as a journalist, model, and actor, and he teaches Latino literature and creative writing at Baruch College and Pace University. His Billboards poem that responded to Latino stereotypes and mutable--and often muted--identity in the fashion world was awarded an Academy of American Poets College Prize in 2013, his novel Going Down was selected as Best First Book at the 2014 International Latino Book Awards, and his hybrid piece This body's long (& I'm still loading) was adapted as an official selection of the Canadian International Film Festival in 2017. A year earlier, he adapted his award-winning course, Identity, Image, & Intimacy in the Age of the Internet, for his first TEDx Talk. He edits PANK, At Large, and Tupelo Quarterly and lives in Brooklyn, where he wrote DEATH OF ART, also available from C&R Press.