Chris Abbate’s poetry has appeared in Chagrin River Review, Blue Heron Review, and Comstock Review, among other journals. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and a Best of the Net award, and has received awards in the 2013 and 2018 Nazim Hikmet Poetry Contests and the 2018 McDill Contest for the North Carolina Poetry Society. He has a B.A. in English from Gordon College (Wenham, MA) and an M.A. in English from Southern Connecticut State University. A native of Hartford, CT, Chris resides near Raleigh where he works as a database programmer for clinical trials and volunteers coaching youth in The First Tee golf program.
E-mail: chrisabbate@yahoo.com
[photo credit: Sharon Penn]
E-mail: chrisabbate@yahoo.com
[photo credit: Sharon Penn]