Christopher Cessac is the author of Republic Sublime (Zoo Press) which won the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry. His work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, Cimarron Review, The Kenyon Review, Mudlark Flash, Poetry Daily, SUB-LIT, Sycamore Review and elsewhere. One of his poems introduces Rio Grande (UT Press), an anthology of prose including Larry McMurtry, John Reed, Américo Paredes, Woody Guthrie, Molly Ivins and others. He is also a member of The Pleasures of Merely Circulating, a rock band that performed recently on the Van's Warped Tour.