Christopher Kempf won First Place in Narrative’s 2020 Spring Story Contest. The author of Late in the Empire of Men, winner of the Levis Prize in Poetry, and What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, 2021), he was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University, received a PhD in English literature from the University of Chicago, and teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.
WORKS THAT HAVE APPEARED IN NARRATIVE:
- Local Color, an essay, in Fall 2020
- Clearing the History and Other Poems, poetry, in Fall 2015