Christian Bodney is a writer. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Iowa Review, Ninth Letter, and SmokeLong Quarterly, among other publications. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. In 2023, he was the recipient of a CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award. Also, his work was selected as runner-up for the 2024 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction. A graduate of New York University's creative writing MFA program and associate editor at Hobart, he lives in New York City.