Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan in 1985 and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Chris is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor.
His work on regimes of surveillance, queer migration, and the auto-archival practices of people moving across transnational spaces has been published by Diacritics, Social Identities, Life Writing, and the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, presented at MIT’s Media in Transition biennial, NYU’s Diasporic Poetics symposium, Derrida Today, and the &Now festival of innovative writing, exhibited at the New York Academy of Art, and profiled by Technoculture. His research has been awarded the Calder Prize for interdisciplinary work and a Mellon Foundation fellowship, and his writing has received the Pushcart Prize, International Latino Book Award, and Academy of American Poets College Prize.
His essays, poetry, and fiction have been translated into Spanish and Portuguese, and have found a home in several venues, including Best American Essays, Latin American Literature Today, BOMB, Denver Quarterly, Social Text, Los Angeles Review of Books, American Poetry Review, Fence, Massachusetts Review, RHINO, and other journals, anthologies, and edited volumes, including Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (Routledge, 2019), Manticore: Hybrid Writing from Hybrid Identities (Sundress, 2019), Open House: Conversations with Writers About Community (Tupelo Press, 2025), Migration, Dislocation and Movement on Screen (Berghahn Books, 2024), and Transmedia Selves: Identity and Persona Creation in the Age of Mobile and Multiplatform Media (Routledge, 2023). His translations have been published in Beginnings of the Prose Poem: All Over The Place (Black Widow Press, 2021) .
Recent books include the novel VHS (CLASH Books, 2025), a notebook titled A and B and Also Nothing (Unbound Edition, 2023), the poetry collection Windows 85 (Roof Books, 2024), a monograph on migrant subjectivity and works of art born in translation called Drift Net (Lever Press, 2025), and north by north/west (West Virginia University Press, 2025), which Electric Lit calls “a new kind of origin story.”
From 2016 until 2021, he edited PANK and PANK Books, launching PANK’s Folio series in 2019 and its translation imprint, Transmission, in 2021. From 2021 to 2023, he worked with the Transnational Joint Research Center for Migration, Logistics, and Unequal Citizens, part of a CHCI-Mellon Global Humanities Institute (GHI) in Taiwan, Malaysia, and Vietnam.
He has taught Latina/o literature, creative writing, media studies, and composition at Pace University and Baruch College, where he’s been awarded the Diana Colbert Prize for Innovative Teaching (2017), the Presidential Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching (2018), the Department of English Excellence in Teaching Award (2021), the Graduate Center English Program Citation for Teaching Excellence (2022), and the Barbara Gluck Teaching Excellence Award (2023). Today he is a Writer in Residence at Pace University in New York City.
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