Rick Christiansen is the author of Bone Fragments (2024) and Not a Hero (2025). Spartan Press. His work has received two 2025 Pushcart Prize nominations. He was a finalist for the RHINO Poetry 2025 Founders Prize and is featured in their 50thAnniversary Edition. He is a jury selected finalist for the 2025 Rhysling Award and will be published in their 2026 Annual. His poems can be found in North American Review, RHINO, Thimble, Pennsylvania English, Anti-Heroin Chic, MacQueen's Quinterly, Sheila-Na-Gig along with many other journals and publications. His poems explore survival, memory, class, and the residue of violence. He lives in Kansas City with his wife Kim and his dog B.