Chris Campanioni was born in Manhattan and grew up in a very nineties New Jersey. The son of exiles from Cuba and Poland, Campanioni is a writer, multimedia artist, and instructor. He is a recipient of the International Latino Book Award for his debut novel, Going Down (Aignos, 2013); the Pushcart Prize for "Soft Opening" from his cross-genre collection Death of Art (C&R Press, 2016); and the 2013 Academy of American Poets College Prize.
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"For Chris Campanioni, memory is a kind of rewinding of the tape of one's life--a tape whose production we rarely have a say in--but the rewinding is power in itself as it keeps alive something irrevocably lost." --Eric Dean Wilson, author of After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort "Chris Campanioni's north by north/west is a conceptually roving surveillance of the self through the language of technology and mechanical reproduction. Evading classification at every turn, this deeply associative text is migratory and nationless, if genre can be understood as a state from which to emigrate. Campanioni's writing--in the form of personal and intellectual contraband--deepens and dazzles in this remarkable performance." --Richard Scott Larson, author of The Long Hallway "This work is a tour-de-force of creative critical praxis, a work that establishes a new genre for exiles and immigrants. north by north/west is constantly positing what it might be and do by questioning labels, genres, and sources in ways that open up current academic discourse." --Christine Hume, author of Everything I Never Wanted to Know