Christian Anton GerardChristian Anton Gerard is the author of HOLDFAST (C&R Press, 2017) and Wilmot Here, Collect For Stella. He's received Pushcart Prize nominations, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference scholarships, the Iron Horse Literary Review's Discoverd Voices Award and an Academy of American Poets Prize. His work appears widely in magazines such as The Rumpus, Post Road, The Adroit Journal, Diode, Orion, Smartish Pace, and Thrush. Gerard holds an MFA from Old Dominion University and a PhD in English from the University of Tennessee. He is an Assistant Professor of English, Rhetoric and Writing at the University of Arkansas- Fort Smith. Read More Read Less