Christopher Kennedy is the Director of [Syracuse University's] MFA Program in Creative Writing. He is the author of three full-length collections of poetry, Nietzsche's Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press), Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press), and Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd., Fall 2007), and three poetry chapbooks, Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press), King Cobra Does the Mambo (M2 Press, Fall 2005), and "B" Sides (M2 Press, Fall 2005). Kennedy has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. His work has appeared in Grand Street, Ploughshares, The Threepenny Review, Mississippi Review, McSweeney's and many other journals and magazines.