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Christian Wiman

Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than a dozen books of poetry and prose, including two memoirs, My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer and He Held Radical Light: The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art; Every Riven Thing, winner of the Ambassador Book Award; Once in the West, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; and Survival Is a Style—all published by FSG. He teaches religion and literature at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School.


Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

“Once I wanted poetry to save me. From what? For what is the better question.”
December 5, 2023  By Christian Wiman
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“Something of the Sky”

From Christian Wiman's Latest Collection, Survival is a Style
February 4, 2020  By Christian Wiman
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