CURRICULUM VITAE
LONELY CHRISTOPHER
BOOKS
Full length
In a January Would
Poetry, Roof Books, 2020
The Resignation
Poetry, Roof Books, 2018
THERE
Novel, Kristiania, 2017
Death & Disaster Series
Poetry, Monk Books, 2014
The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse
Stories, Akashic Books, 2011
Chapbooks
Double Rainbow
Poetry, Be About It Press, 2021
Tu casa en llamas
Poetry in Spanish translation by Dante III, Kodama Cartonera, 2015
Crush Dream
Poetry, Radioactive Moat Press, 2012
Poems in June
Poetry, The Corresponding Society, 2011
Wow, Where Do You Come from, Upside-Down Land?
Poetry, The Corresponding Society, 2009
Gay Plays (US Edition)
Plays, Small Anchor Press, 2009
Gay Plays (Bilingual Edition, China)
Plays, translated by Xinyao Huang & Julia Chang, Small Anchor Press, 2009
Satan
Poetry, Small Anchor Press, 2007
Archival copies of Lonely Christopher's chapbooks are in the collection of Poets House in New York City
Print Anthologies
Anthology of Young US Poetry (Ukraine), Best American Experimental Writing 2016, Brooklyn Poets Anthology, Divining Divas: 100 Gay Men on Their Muses, Future Perfect, Into, Satanica, The Sonnets: Translating and Rewriting Shakespeare, Wealth
Print Journals
Correspondence, Fence, The Lifted Brow, Supermachine, The White Review
FILM
MOM
Dramatic feature length, original screenplay and direction, Cavazos Films, 2013-2019
Crazy House
Dramatic short, directed by Aaron Mirkin, original screenplay, independent, 2015
Petit Lait
Dramatic short, directed by Francois Choquet, adapted from the short story “Milk,” La Banquise Films, 2013
We Are Not Here
Dramatic short, directed by Aaron Mirkin, adapted from the short story “The Relationship,” independent, 2013
PLAYS
Directed by Lonely Christopher unless otherwise noted
I Am Happy
The Internet, Welcome to Boog City Arts Festival 14.5, Inter Poets Theater, 2021
Sellers Bookstore, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, independent, 2009
Endymion Dreams the Moon
Dixon Place, New York City, independent, 2019
Alley Cat Gallery, San Francisco, independent, 2016
Videofag, Toronto, independent, 2016
Pete's Candy Store, Brooklyn, independent, 2011
Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, Institutionalized Theater, 2010
Voyages
La Mama Galleria, New York City, dir. Alexandra Zelman-Doring, Throes Theater, 2018
Pages from a Course in General Linguistics
Bar on A, New York City, dir. Teddy Nicholas, Everywhere Theater Group, 2010
Gay Plays
The Bookworm, ChengDu, China, dir. Jen Hyde, independent, 2009
The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, Institutionalized Theater, 2008
MAD DEADLY WORLDWIDE GANGSTER COMMUNIST COMPUTER GOD
The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, adapted from a letter by Francis E. Dec, Institutionalized Theater, 2008
Thoughts on the Atomic Bomb
The Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, adapted from a text by Gertrude Stein, Institutionalized Theater, 2008
Retardo
The Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, Institutionalized Theater, 2007
As Producer
The Rapture by James Sherry and Mark Wallace, Zoom, Inter Poets Theater, 2020
OTHER WRITING
Articles & Reviews
Filmatique, "Indie Memoir," essay on making the film MOM, July 2020
Evergreen Review, "Kevin Killian: I Can Explain Everything" IV. Ghost Parade, April 2020,
Evergreen Review, "Kevin Killian: I Can Explain Everything" III. Phantom of the Opera, March 2020
Lit Hub, "How Kevin Killian Used Italian Horror Movies to Understand the AIDS Crisis," February 2020
The Poetry Project Newsletter #259, "Don Yorty's Spring Sonnets, review by Lonely Christopher," January 2020
Evergreen Review, "Kevin Killian: I Can Explain Everything" II. Chain of Fools, January 2020
Evergreen Review, "Kevin Killian: I Can Explain Everything" I. Bachelors Get Lonely, October 2019
career retrospective on author Kevin Killian in four parts
Haus Red Vol. 2, "The Splendor and Misery of Bodies, of Cities: Place and Samuel R. Delany,"
academic essay on Times Square Red, Times Square Blue by Samuel R. Delany, Fall 2019
The Fanzine, “In a Mirror Maze,” review of The Well-Dressed Wound by Derek McCormack, December 2015
TheThe, “The Beautiful Pool Is Empty,” review of Cool Limbo by Michael Montlack, June 2011
TheThe, “Glory Pee,” review of Pee on Water by Rachel B. Glaser, January 2011
TheThe, “Memorial Day,” review of The Salt Ecstasies by James L. White, November 2010
TheThe, “Some Sort of Truth,” review of Black Life by Dorothea Lasky, April 2010
The Corresponding Society, “The Ambiguities,” review of Pierre by Herman Melville, 2009
Blurbs
Before You Kneels My Silence by Jacob Steinberg
The Story of My Accident Is Ours by Rachel Levitsky
Boneyard by Stephen Beachy
FEATURED READINGS & TALKS
Selected Venues
Adobe Books, Anthology Film Archives, Apexart, Barnes & Noble, Barney Savage Gallery, Bennington College, Book Culture, Book Soup, Books Inc., Bowery Poetry Club, BRIC House, Brooklyn Historical Society, Brooklyn Public Library, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, Cake Shop, California College of the Arts, Charles Bank Gallery, City Lights, Club Cumming, Codex Books, Cornelia Street Café, CUNY Graduate Center, Dixon Place, Eugene Lang College at the New School, Fort Greene Park, Giovanni’s Room, Harvard University, House of Yes, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, KGB Bar, Louisiana State University, McCarren Pool, La MaMa Galleria, Moe’s Books, MoMA PS1, Nomadic Press, Omi International Arts Center, Pete’s Candy Store, Powell’s, Poetry Project, PPOW Gallery, Pratt Institute, Rizzoli Bookstore, San Francisco Public Library, Small Press Distribution, St Mark's Bookshop, Tijuana Cultural Center, University of San Francisco, Unnameable Books, Webster Hall, Zinc Bar
Selected Co-Readers
Penny Arcade, Christian Bök, Ana Božičević, Anselm Berrigan, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Billy Cancel, Wo Chan, CAConrad, Samuel R. Delany, Andrew Durbin, Kate Durbin, Ben Fama, Robert Fitterman, Adam Fitzgerald, Robert Glück, Michael Gottlieb, James Hannaham, Christian Hawkey, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Patricia Spears Jones, Saeed Jones, Rami Karim, Joseph Keckler, Kevin Killian, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jee Leong Koh, Shiv Kotecha, Dorothea Lasky, Paul Legault, Rachel Levitsky, Richard Loranger, Trisha Low, Dante Micheaux, Stephen Motika, Uche Nduka, Elizabeth Nunez, Trace Peterson, Tommy Pico, Ariana Reines, Emji Spero, Bianca Stone, Jennifer Tamayo, Edmund White, Don Yorty, Rachel Zolf
SELECTED PRESS
The Poetry Project Newsletter, Levi Bentley reviews In a January Would, November 2020
Filmatique, "Who Is Mom?" by Tony Torn, July 2020
DC's, "Five Poetry Books I Read Recently & Loved" by Dennis Cooper, March 2020
LA Review of Books, "Walls Don't Work" by Quinn Roberts, March 2020
Hyperallergic, "A Poet's Symbolic Resignation" by Ben Tripp, February 2019
Lit Hub, DW Gibson interviews Lonely Christopher, "Beyond Fanfiction: Rewriting and Distorting The Shining,"
February 2018
The Fanzine, "We Are Not Here: An Interview with Aaron Mirkin," March 2015
Lambda Literary, Jameson Fitzpatrick reviews Death & Disaster Series, January 2015
The Volta, “In Review: Best Books of 2014” by Amy Lawless, December 2014
The American Reader, Adam Fitzgerald reviews Death & Disaster Series, November 2014
Brooklyn Poets interview, October 2014
Boston Review, “Forget O’Hara” by Felix Bernstein, June 2014
Bookish, “10 Small Press Poetry Books You Have to Read in 2014” by Jordan Scott, April 2014
The Fanzine, Joyelle McSweeney reviews Death & Disaster Series, April 2014
Publishers Weekly reviews Death & Disaster Series, March 2014
The Wild Magazine, “Artist of the Week: Lonely Christopher,” February 2014
The Lawrentian, “Lonely Christopher’s ‘Mechanics’ a study of human nature” by Bryan Cebulski, February 2013
Next Magazine, “Lonely Christopher’s Poetry of Death” by Jameson Fitzpatrick, September 2012
The New York Times (online), “Bed-Stuy Writer to Film Movie in Fort Greene” by Wesley Middleton, April 2011
Publishers Weekly reviews The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse, February 2011
Vice interview, January 2011
AUDIO
Lonely Christopher’s audio archives are maintained online by PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania
ORGANIZATIONS
Inter Poets Theater
Theater company, founding artistic director, current member
Democratic Socialists of America
Political group, current member
The Writers' Collective of Kristiania
Writers’ collective and press, charter member, 2012-2018
The Wilde Boys
Queer salon society, member, 2010-2012
The Corresponding Society
Writers’ collective and press, co-founder, editor, 2005-2012
The Institutionalized Theater
Theater company, co-founder, 2007-2010
SELECTED AWARDS & FESTIVALS
Official Selection
Crazy House, dramatic short: HollyShorts Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2016; GAZE Film Festival, Dublin, 2016; Gimli Film Festival, Manitoba, 2016; Lago Film Festival, Italy, 2016; Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2016; Inside Out Film Festival, Toronto, 2016; Vancouver International Film Festival, 2015
A&E Short Filmmaker’s Award for Best Film
We Are Not Here, dramatic short, National Screen Institute, Canada, 2015
Best Experimental Film
We Are Not Here, dramatic short, Toronto International Short Film Festival, 2013
Official Selection
MOM, dramatic feature length film: Distrital Film Festival, Mexico City, 2012; NewFilmmakers Series and AltFest at Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 2018
Thesis Award for Fiction
THERE, novel, The Pratt Institute Creative Writing Department, Brooklyn, New York, 2009
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
Available upon request