Chris HavenCHRIS HAVEN was born in Oklahoma, the son of a grocer and a storyteller. Nesting Habits of Flightless Birds is his first book. In addition to his short fiction work, a collection of poems, Bone Seeker, is forthcoming from NYQ Books; furher poems can be found in The Southern Review, Cincinnati Review, Pleiades, Mid-American Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal, and prose poems from his Terrible Emmanuel series have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Sycamore Review, North America Review, and Seneca Review, where they won the Deborah Tall Award for Lyric Essay. He has degrees in Creative Writing from the University of Kansas, Texas State University, and the University of Houston. He lives with his family in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he teaches courses in writing and style at Grand Valley State University. Read More Read Less