Connor Stratton is a writer and editor from Oak Park, Illinois, currently based in Minneapolis. He holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Minnesota.
Connor’s poetry and other writing have been published in American Poetry Journal, DIAGRAM, Rogue Agent, Full Stop, streets.mn, Everyday Genius, among others, and he has held a writing residency at the Anderson Center.
Connor cohosted Close Talking: A Poetry Podcast, which featured Noor Hindi, Michael Kleber-Diggs, Tara Betts, among others. He has been a mentor for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and was the program manager and translator for the Somali-Minnesota Poets Corner. He is currently a freelance editor as well as an editor of nonfiction school library books.
