No Texting at the Dinner Table

Christopher Goodrich teaches in Montgomery County, MD. He has also taught at New York University and Frostburg State University. His poems have appeared in Margie, Hotel Amerika, Rattle, The New York Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Cimarron Review, Cider Press Review and The Worcester Review, among others. He has been featured on Verse Daily and NPR. He is the recipient of two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes, an Emerging Writer Fellowship from The Writer's Center and holds an MFA from New England College. A chapbook, By Reaching, was published in 2007. His first book, Nevertheless, Hello (Steel Toe Books), was published in 2009. In addition to writing, he is also the Co-Producing Artistic Director of Unexpected Stage Company with his wife, Rachel. He is grateful to his wonderful family, including Rachel, their 3 girls, and, sometimes, his dog.