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Christopher Kempf is the author of Late in the Empire of Men, which won the 2015 Levis Prize in Poetry from Four Way Books. Recipient of a Pushcart Prize, an NEA Fellowship, and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, he is a doctoral student in English at the University of Chicago.