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, and he was a finalist for the RHINO Poetry 2025 Founders Prize. He has also been longlisted for a 2025 Rhysling Award (outcome pending). His poems explore survival, memory, class, and the residue of violence. He lives in Kansas City with his wife Kim and his dog B.