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Chris Campanioni

Chris Campanioni is a writer in residence at Pace University in New York City, where he teaches intermedial studies and creative writing. His writing has been recognized with a Pushcart Prize and an International Latino Book Award, and his research has received the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and two Mellon Foundation fellowships. Campanioni’s recent books include a creative nonfiction, north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025); a monograph on migrant subjectivity, Drift Net (Lever Press, 2025); and the novel VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), which won the 2026 Mary Shelley Award for Outstanding Fictional Work.