Christopher Sindt is a professor of English at Saint Mary’s College of California, where he teaches in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and serves as the vice provost for academic affairs. He is the author of The Bodies, published in Parlor Press’s Free Verse Editions series (2012), a chapbook of poetry, The Land of Give and Take, and System and Population (Parlor Press, 2017). He attended the Community of Writers Poetry Program in 2013 and serves on the Board of Directors. Before coming to the Board he was instrumental in the administration of the nature writing conference co-produced with the Community of Writers and UC Davis: Art of the Wild.