In Memoriam
Chris Ransick’s first book, Never Summer, won a Colorado Book Award in 2003, and he published a collection of short stories in 2005 titled A Return To Emptiness, which went on to win the Colorado Authors’ League Award for Fiction. He has a number of other published works of poetry and short stories, including Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams, Lost Songs & Last Chances, Language for the Living and the Dead, and mummer prisoner scavenger thief.
Chris lived in Montana, Wyoming, California, Colorado, and Oregon, working as a reporter, editor, and professor. He served as the assistant to the editors of the definitive anthology, The Last Best Place: A Montana Anthology. His work has appeared in Pilgrimage, Copper Nickel 3, The Eleventh Muse, Fugue, and The Paterson Literary Review.
Chris died in 2019, leaving his wife, son, and daughter with a lifetime of words and love.
