Christos Kalli (he/him), born and raised in Cyprus, is a doctoral student in the Department of English at the University of Pennsylvania (and, for Spring 2025, an Ivy+ Exchange Scholar at Columbia). He studies modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. For 2023-2024, he was a Harrison Graduate Fellow. In 2024, he was awarded The Peregrine Prize/William Carlos Williams Prize from the Academy of American Poets.

His critical writing appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Chicago Review of Books, the Harvard Review, the Hopkins Review, Poetry Northwest, and World Literature Today.

His poems have been published in Prairie Schooner, Salt Hill, Muzzle, Ninth Letter, The Adroit Journal, the National Poetry Review, Radar, The Hollins Critic, the minnesota review, Dunes Review, Hobart, and The Penn Review.

In addition to editing The Cambridge Pamphlet (2019), he has been an Associate Poetry Editor of Stirring (2019-2021) and has served on the editorial board of The Adroit Journal (2017-2019).

He has previously taught or help teach courses on American Literature, World Literature, and the Beatles. For Fall 2024, he TAed for Introduction to Asian American Literature and Culture (Bakirathi Mani).  

As an international, first-gen student and child of refugees, he is interested in conversations about access in academia and the Ivy League.