Christian Wessels is a poet, essayist, and critic. He is the author of Who Follow the Gleam (University of Massachusetts Press, April 2026), selected by Bianca Stone for the Juniper Prize for Poetry.

He is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Rochester. He received his PhD in English from UR and his MFA from Boston University.

He splits his time between New York and the Black Forest with his wife, media scholar Tanja Beljanski, and their daughter.