Christopher Kempf is the author of What Though the Field Be Lost (LSU Press, Spring 2021) and Late in the Empire of Men (Four Way, 2017).  Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, he holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from the University of Chicago.  Kempf teaches in the MFA program at the University of Illinois.