Christopher Goodrich teaches in Montgomery County, MD. He has also taught at New York University and Frostburg State University. His poems have appeared in Margie, Hotel Amerika, Rattle, The New York Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Cimarron Review, Cider Press Review, and The Worcester Review, among others. He has been featured on Verse Daily and NPR. He is the recipient of two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prizes, an Emerging Writer Fellowship from The Writer's Center and holds an M.F.A. from New England College. A chapbook, By Reaching, was published in 2007. His first book, Nevertheless, Hello, (Steel Toe Books) was published in 2009. In addition to writing, he is also the Co-Producing Artistic Director of Unexpected Stage Company with his wife, Rachel. He is grateful to his wonderful family, including Rachel, their 3 girls, and, sometimes, his dog.

Other poems by Christopher Goodrich in Verse Daily:
February 10, 2006:   "For My First Wife, While Married to My Second" " It has been a long time since we sat down..."

Books by Christopher Goodrich:

Other poems on the web by Christopher Goodrich:
"Telling the Truth to Daughters"
Two poems

Christopher Goodrich's Blog.

Christopher Goodrich's Website.

Christopher Goodrich According to Wikipedia.

Christopher Goodrich on Twitter.

About No Texting at the Dinner Table:

"With a light hand and a pulsing heart, Chris Goodrich gives us the delights, glooms, and absurdities of love, marriage, childbirth and what comes after—like the way a sleepless baby is "the most terrifying thing you've ever adored"—plus the tragicomedy of being a teacher in a ghetto school, and, in general, being human. Chris is only human, like you, dear reader, and his poems just can't stop reminding you of that."
—Alicia Ostriker

"Chris Goodrich is not satisfied to write the kind of detached, overly-clever poems that litter the literary landscape and then blow away, forgotten. These poems are homemade hallelujahs, loud cheers for the team that doesn't have a prayer, cloud-bitten dreams that you can build your house from—let them live in you, and you can live in them."
—Tom C. Hunley