Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of fifteen books including, most recently, Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair. His upcoming collection of letters with Miroslav Volf, Glimmerings, will be published in January 2026. Mr. Wiman has taught at Stanford, Northwestern, Lynchburg College in Virginia, and the University of Economics, Prague. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine, the premiere magazine for poetry in the English-speaking world. During that time the magazine’s circulation tripled, and it garnered three National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors. Mr. Wiman has written for The New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, and numerous other publications. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds two honorary doctorates. His particular interests include modern poetry, Russian literature, the language of faith, “accidental” theology (that is, theology conducted by unexpected means), and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture.
B.A. Washington and Lee University
Expertise:
- Literature