Christopher Klingbeil is the author of the chapbook evaporatus (ELJ Editions) and the book Landscape, Dad! (Thirty West Publishing House). His writing has appeared in the Denver Quarterly, Painted Bride Quarterly, and Salt Hill Journal, to name a few places. Through much of the 2010s, he worked as a government lumberjack across the US West before arriving in northern Colorado where he now lives with his wife and children. He teaches English and creative writing at Laramie County Community College, and is a founding editor of the online, student-run publication Tree Rock.