Christopher Impiglia is a writer, editor, and educator from Bridgehampton, NY. He is Part-Time Faculty at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where he teaches creative and critical writing, reading, thinking, and speaking. He also edits art books. His love of design led him to found the creative studio Counterpoint Literary, where he serves as Editor.
He received an MFA in Fiction from The New School and an MA in Medieval History and Archaeology from the University of St Andrews. A Finalist in Omnidawn’s Fabulist Fiction Contest (2022), Nowhere Magazine’s Spring Travel Writing Prize (2022), and the Hemingway Shorts Contest (2019), his words have elsewhere appeared in Columbia Journal, Entropy Magazine, PANK, and Kyoto Journal, among others. He lives in New York City.
Fiction (selected)
The Glassblower: illustrated by Venantius J. Pinto
"Alexandria," Omnidawn, 2022 (Contest Finalist).
"A Drop of Salt," Nowhere Magazine, 2022 (Contest Finalist).
"To You," (hybrid essay), New Critique, 2020.
"The Ocean," Hemingway Shorts, Volume 4, 2019 (Contest Finalist).
"The Ocelot," Allegory Ridge—Archipelago Anthology, 2019.
"The Glassblower," Kyoto Journal (Issue 89), 2017.
"A Kind of Vertigo," Talking Soup, 2017.
"Between Two Lanes," The East Hampton Star, 2017.
Nonfiction (selected)
Real Combat: illustrated by Cindy S.Y. Kang
"Democrats are Delusional," Common Dreams, 2025.
"Present Imperfect: A case for the not-so-great-novel," Neon Door, 2022.
"Real Combat: Late Capitalism Through Bolaño’s Lens," Neon Door, 2022.
"Unpossessed Places," PANK Magazine, 2021.
"Cultural Hegemony in Trump’s Age," EuropeNow Journal (Issue 33), 2020.
"What Mishima Teaches Us About Love," Entropy Magazine, 2019.
"A Legion of Horribles," Entropy Magazine, 2018.
"What Kawabata Teaches Us About Lust," Entropy Magazine, 2018.
"The Essence of our Era," EuropeNow Journal (Issue 14), 2018.
"New York to Manchuria," EuropeNow Journal (Issue 11), 2017.
"The Past Makes Its Appearance," EuropeNow Journal (Issue 2), 2016.
"Beyond the Glacier," Columbia Journal, 2014.
Poetry (selected)
Agamemnon’s Mask
My eyes, gateways, they say, to the soul, are dilated revealing only flesh.
Organs heave, blood pumps, nerves twitch,
beckoning touch;
innumerable peepholes of gaping pores
—this humidity thick—
tell nothing more.
"Three Poems: 'Masks,' 'Timeless,' and 'Nostos/algos,'" Neon Door, 2022.
Edits (selected)
Max ID NY: designed by Irina V. Wang
Max ID NY: Dukuh House. Ed. by Christopher Impiglia. Max ID NY, TBA.
James Taylor Harwood. Ed. by Micah Christiansen. Anthony’s Fine Art, 2023.
Lenses on the Environment. Ed. by Louise Stefanii. Africana, 2022.
Ubuntu: I am because we are. Ed. by Louise Stefanii. Africana, 2022.
Genau. Ed. by Christopher Impiglia. Max ID NY, 2022.
MAX ID NY. Ed. Christopher Impiglia. Max ID NY, 2020.
Art of Startups. Ed. Christopher Impiglia. Anthem, Bracken Bower, 2020.
Scrawl. Ed. Jacob Lehman. Rizzoli, 2019.
New York Splendor. Ed. Philip Reeser. Rizzoli, 2018.
Fin de Siècle. Ed. Karen Marta, Simon Castets. Swiss Institute/Karma, 2018.
Architecture at Large. Ed. Karen Marta, Felix Burrichter. Rizzoli, 2018.
Niele Toroni. Ed. Karen Marta, Simon Castets. Swiss Institute, Konig, 2017.
Liquid Antiquity. Ed. Brooke Holmes, Karen Marta. DESTE, 2017.
2000 Words: Kaari Upson. Ed. Karen Marta. DESTE, 2017.
William Kentridge: Triumphs. Ed. Carlos Basualdo, Konig, 2016.
Work Hard. Ed. Karen Marta, Simon Castets. SI, Karma, 2016.
Kim Gordon: Noise Name Paintings. Ed. by Karen Marta. DESTE, 2016.
Two Suns in a Sunset. Ed. by Karen Marta. Sharjah, Konig, 2016.