Christopher Warner has worked in orchards, vineyards, as a landscaper, a farm hand, in construction, as a missionary, a teacher, field assistant, wilderness guide, editor, handyman, and railroader. He has lived, studied, and worked in 15 countries on five continents. He currently lives with his family a few minutes from where he grew up, in central Illinois.

Poetry is neither a hobby nor a career for him, but rather a posture in the world, and the art of crafted consciousness; he approaches poems as pools of image, music, and language by which the reader may pass through and—perhaps—be changed. He writes slowly, publishes rarely, and abstains from social media when possible. He is working on his first collection—ten years in the making—which explores the deep images, alienation, and spiritual longing inherent to the landscapes of the Midwest and beyond.