Christopher Howell

Christopher Howell (born ca. 1946) is an American poet, editor, and educator. He has published eight books of poetry.

Born in Portland, Oregon, Howell served as a journalist for the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He earned a B.S. from Oregon State University in 1968, an M.A. from Portland State University in 1971, and an MFA from the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1973. He also attended Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.

Since 1975, Howell has served as the director and principal editor for Lynx House Press. He is also editor of Willow Springs, director of the Eastern Washington University Press, and on the faculty of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Eastern Washington University.

His daughter, Emma Howell, was an aspiring poet and student at Oberlin College who died at age 20 in June 2001. Her family published her poems posthumously in a volume titled Slim Night of Recognition. [1]

Christopher Howell lives in Spokane, Washington.

Books of poetry

• The Crime of Luck
• Why Shouldn't I
• Just Waking
• Sea Change
• Though Silence: The Ling Wei Poems
• Memory and Heaven
• Light's Ladder

Awards

• National Endowment for the Arts fellowships (won two)
• Oregon Arts Commission grant
• Washington State Governor's Award (1986)
• Vi Gale Award
• Adrienne Lee Award
• Pushcart Prizes (three)
• Vachel Lindsay prize
• Helen Bullis prize

Other publications

Howell's poems have been widely anthologized (including twice in the Pushcart Anthology) and have appeared in many journals, including Harper's, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest and The Gettysburg Review.

External links

• Christopher Howell at the National Endowment for the Arts

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