Christian Hawkey is a poet and translator. He is the author of Petitions for an Alien Relative (a chapbook by hand held editions, 2010); Ventrakl (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010); Citizen Of (Wave Books, 2007); Hour, Hour, a chapbook which includes drawings by the artist Ryan Mrowzowski (Delirium Press, 2006); and The Book of Funnels (Verse Press, 2004), winner of the 2006 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. In 2006 he was given a Creative Capital Innovative Literature Award, and he has also received awards from the Poetry Fund and the Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.