Christopher Sablan Diaz is an indigenous CHamoru and anti-imperialist veteran from the Pacific Island of Guåhan. As a writer, performer, and photographer, he’s been featured by NBC News, Poets & Writers.org, and more. 

He’s received fellowships from Indigenous Nations Poets and Kundiman, and support from the Washington State Arts Commission. In 2025, he was the opening keynote speaker at the Oregon Poetry Association’s annual conference and he will deliver the opening poem and workshops at this year’s Willamette Writers Conference. He's a two-time grand slam champion and alongside his PNW teammates, won the 2023 Bigfoot Regional Slam. He’s taught with “Writers in the Schools” and volunteers to co-facilitate writing workshops at the Vancouver Juvenile Detention Center.

Currently, his creative practice is often asking him to interrogate how masculinity and assimilation intersect with his indigeneity and deconstruction of his time in the military. But he also keeps anthropomorphizing his dogs, household objects, and nature (and he knows he should tamp this down). He wants to get better at including culpability and humor in his work and he’s in a phase of trying to write the weirdest poems possible, whatever that means to him in the moment.

Every time he thinks of making this website look/feel/function better, he tells himself that he needs to be reading more (i.e., let’s wrap up this “about me” section). He’s eternally grateful to the poetry communities who have helped shape him, from the American South to the PNW. He goes by Christopher (not “Chris”), uses parentheticals too much, and lives in Vancouver, WA on the unceded ancestral lands of the Chinook, Cowlitz, and Klickitat nations.