Christopher Santantasio is a Bay Area writer and editor originally from the Hudson Valley. His fiction and nonfiction appear in One Story, Story Magazine, Pinch, Hayden’s Ferry Review, DIAGRAM, Epiphany, SmokeLong Quarterly, and elsewhere in print and online. He holds an MFA from The Ohio State University and was a 2023 writing resident at South Porch (Summerville, NC). A finalist for numerous honors including the 2024 Anthony Veasna So Scholarship from The Adroit Journal, and the 2020 Janus Prize from the Chautauqua Institution, he is at work on a novel about gay life in the lead up to the 2008 Financial Crisis. He spends his spare time editing fiction for The Rumpus and exploring the woods and the coast with his partner and their dog, Mojo.
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