Christopher Leigh Silverberg

Christopher Leigh Silverberg is a Black, queer, churchy, theater-obsessed poet who helps people make films. He's an incoming MFA student at Hunter College. His work also appears in Callaloo, ANMLY, Memezine, and other outlets. He's grateful to his teachers at Hunter, Columbia, and Cave Canem. He's currently at work writing American histories joyously and Afropessimistically, telling his life story through other people's art, and practicing spells to unweave the wolf. See more work at Christophersilverberg.com.

Works

Here Come The Men In Black, or, Out Wrecks The Shroud, or, Kelly’s Black Boyfriend Is Actually The Eschaton??? (Poetry) | Issue Twenty-Four, July 2026