Christopher Buckley (born 1948) is an American poet.

Buckley was born in Arcata, California. He graduated from St. Mary's College with a BA, San Diego State University with a MA, and University of California, Irvine with an MFA. He taught at Fresno State University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Murray State University, West Chester University, and University of California, Riverside.^[1]

He married painter Nadya Brown.^[2]

Awards

• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship^[3]
• Fulbright Award in Creative Writing
• four Pushcart Prizes
• 2001 and 1984 NEA grants in poetry

Works

• "Sky", UPNE
• Blue autumn: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-914278-53-5
• Dark matter: poems, Copper Beech Press, 1993, ISBN 9780914278627
• Star Apocrypha, Northwestern University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8101-5113-0
• Greatest hits, 1978-2000, Pudding House Publications, 2001, ISBN 978-1-930755-49-9
• And the sea: poems, Sheep Meadow Press, 2006, ISBN 9781931357333
• Sleepwalk: California dreamin' and a last dance with the '60s, Eastern Washington University Press, 2006
• Modern history: prose poems 1987-2007, Tupelo Press, 2008, ISBN 978-1-932195-68-2
• Rolling the Bones: poems, UT Press, 2009, ISBN 978-1-59732-063-4
• One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology., Lynx House Press, 2012, ISBN 978-0-89924-126-5

Memoir

• Cruising state: growing up in southern California, University of Nevada Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-87417-247-8

Editor

• Naming the Lost: The Fresno Poets (Interviews & Essays. edited by Christopher Buckley (Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2021) ISBN 9781622889044

• Condition of the Spirit - The Life and Work of Larry Levis. edited by Christopher Buckley & Alexander Long (Eastern Washington University, 2004) ISBN 9780910055925

• How much earth: the Fresno poets, Editors Christopher Buckley, David Oliveira, M. L. Williams, Heyday Books, 2001, ISBN 978-0-9666691-7-6

• The geography of home: California's poetry of place, Editors Christopher Buckley, Gary Young, Heyday Books, 1999, ISBN 978-1-890771-19-5