Prof. Eaton’s Faculty Bio

Christopher Eaton is originally from Western NY. He holds a BA from Oberlin College, an
MA from the Poetics Program at SUNY Buffalo, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers’
Workshop, in addition to doing doctoral work at the University of Arkansas.
As C. Violet Eaton, he writes and translates poetry, having published Quartet (Ahsahta,
2018), and Some Habits (2015), which won the Omnidawn Open Prize. With his sister
Emily, he translates work from Spanish—their translation of Cristina Piña’s Estaciones del
yo was published in 2023 by Free Poetry and they are currently translating the collected
poems of Alfonsina Storni. His most recent manuscript Cant has been a finalist for the
National Poetry Series and the Dorset Prize.