Chris Ransick, MA, MA
Chris Ransick, Denver’s Poet Laureate, won a Colorado Book Award for poetry in 2003 for his first book, Never Summer. His subsequent collection of short stories, A Return To Emptiness, won the 2005 Colorado Authors’ League Fiction Award and was a finalist for the 2005 Colorado Book Award in Fiction. Lost Songs & Last Chances, published by Denver-based Ghost Road Press in 2006, is his most recent book.
A native New Yorker, he and has lived the last 29 years in Montana, Wyoming, California, and Colorado, working as a reporter, editor, and professor. He served as assistant to the editors on the definitive anthology, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. A staunch supporter of freedom of press, he is a member of PEN USA and serves on the Freedom to Write Committee. He is also active as a volunteer in area schools, he serves on the Public Library Board in his community, and works on a broad variety of initiatives to support literacy.
Chris holds masters degrees in English/Creative Writing (University of California, Davis 1990) and journalism (University of Montana, 1988), and has been a full-time faculty member at Arapahoe Community College since 1990, where he has developed award-winning programs in creative writing and journalism, as well as helping to found the ACC Writers Studio. He has taught poetry workshops and the poetry master class for Lighthouse.
This instructor has no new classes scheduled at this time.