THE DISTANCE IS MORE THAN AN OCEAN

Chris Wiewiora spent his childhood in Warsaw, Poland with his parents who served as Evangelical missionaries behind the "Iron Curtain." Later, his parents moved their family to Orlando, Florida. Chris received Honors in the Major from the University of Central Florida where he worked as an assistant editor at The Florida Review. The Distance Is More Than An Ocean is his first chapbook. He wrote it while earning an MFA in Creative Writing and Environment at Iowa State University where he served as the managing editor of Flyway: Journal of Writing and Environment. After graduating, the National Endowment for Humanities deemed him a "Humanities Scholar" and Humanities Iowa awarded him a grant for hosting the radio show BOOK CENTRAL where he interviewed authors writing from the Central Time Zone. His nonfiction has been published in Airplane Reading, A River & Sound Review, Essay Daily, Redivider, Slice, and Story as well as anthologized in Back to the Lake, Best American Sports Writing, Best Food Writing, The Norton Reader, and Two-Countries: U.S. Daughters and Sons of Immigrant Parents. He regularly contributes to The Good Men Project. Read more at www.chriswiewiora.com