Christian Bancroft received their PhD from the University of Houston and is the recipient of a Michener Fellowship. He is the author of a poetry collection, A Ghost Has No Fantasies (forthcoming from Unbound Editions Press, 2025); a book of scholarship, Queering Modernist Translation: The Poetics of Race, Gender, and Queerness (2020); and a co-edited collection (with Jenny Molberg), Adelaide Crapsey: The Life and Work of an American Master (2018). Their work has appeared or is forthcoming in Callaloo, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, jubilat, Gulf Coast, and Asymptote, among others.