Christian Barter

Christian Barter:  was born and raised in Maine.  He received a BA in music composition from Bates College in 1990 and an MFA in poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1997. He is the author of In Someone Else’s House (BkMk Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 Maine Literary Award for Poetry; and The Singers I Prefer(CavanKerry Press, 2005), which was a finalist for the 2006 Lenore Marshall Prize given by the Academy of American Poets.  In 2016, he was named poet laureate of Acadia National Park in Mount Desert, Maine.  He lives in Bar Harbor, Maine.