Portrait by Giancarlo Impiglia.
Christopher Impiglia is a writer, editor, and educator from the hamlet of Bridgehampton, NY. He has taught courses on Creative Writing and Critical Thinking, Reading, and Speaking at The Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). Before then, he taught courses on Sportswriting and was a tennis teaching pro.
Chris received an MFA in Fiction from The New School and an MA in Medieval History and Archaeology from the University of St Andrews. He has received support from Platt Clove Reserve. He was 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 also appeared in Columbia Journal, Entropy Magazine, PANK, and Kyoto Journal. He lives between New York City and his hometown.
Fiction (selected)
The Glassblower, Kyoto Journal. Illus. Venantius J. Pinto.
"Alexandria," Omnidawn, 2022 (Contest Finalist; print).
"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; print).
"The Ocelot," Allegory Ridge—Archipelago Anthology, 2019 (print).
"The Glassblower," Kyoto Journal (Issue 89), 2017 (print).
"Between Two Lanes," The East Hampton Star, 2017 (print).
Nonfiction (selected)
Real Combat: illustrated by Cindy S.Y. Kang
"Hello, Fascism: What Democrats Should Be Doing," Common Dreams, 2025.
"Democrats are Delusional," Common Dreams, 2025.
"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," Columbia University Council for European Studies, EuropeNow Journal (Issue 14), 2018.
"New York to Manchuria," Columbia University Council for European Studies, EuropeNow Journal (Issue 11), 2017.
"The Past Makes Its Appearance," Columbia University Council for European Studies, EuropeNow Journal (Issue 2), 2016.
"Beyond the Glacier," Columbia Journal, 2014.Poetry (selected)
Three Poems: "Masks," "Timeless," "Nostos/algos," Neon Door, 2022.
Interviews
“Meet Christopher Impiglia,” Canvas Rebel, 2025
Edits (selected)
Max ID NY: designed by Irina V. Wang
As an editor, I specialize in art books and the art-related short-form: essays, biographies, walkthroughs, etc. Books I have worked on have been reprinted and won awards: The Art of Startups, which I edited and ghost-wrote, was a Finalist in the Financial Times’ 2019 Bracken Bower Prize.
My greatest pleasure comes with working with the artist and designer to create books that embody the work at hand; with projects like Max ID NY: A Decade of Works, I hoped to harness the same geometry, vision, vocabulary.
To collect such books is to collect one of the artist’s own works.
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. A Decade. Ed. Christopher Impiglia. Max ID NY, 2020.
Art of Startups. Ed. Christopher Impiglia. Anthem, 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.