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, January 2026); 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). His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cimarron Review, Gulf Coast,The Missouri Review, Petrichor, and Prairie Schooner, among others.