Editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013, Christian Wiman is an American poet raised in West Texas who earned a BA from Washington and Lee University. His poetry collections include Every Riven Thing (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010), and his essay collection My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer appeared from the same publisher in 2013. Wiman teaches at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, where he joined the faculty in 2013. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, and earlier held a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University.
