Christopher Sablan Diaz (he/him) 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 recently he was shortlisted for the 2026 Poet of the Year Award by ONLY POEMS literary magazine.

He’s received fellowships and support from Indigenous Nations Poets, Kundiman, the McCormack Writing Center (formerly Tin House), the Washington State Arts Commission, and the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology. In 2025, he was the opening keynote speaker at the Oregon Poetry Association’s annual conference and recently he served as a workshop facilitator, panelist, and opening keynote poet at the 2026 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 Juvenile Detention Center in Vancouver, WA.

Currently, his creative practice is often asking him to interrogate how masculinity, violence, and mental health intersect with family dynamics, assimilation, and the deconstruction of his time in the military. He’s eternally grateful to the poetry communities who have helped shape him, from the American South to the PNW. He goes by Christopher and lives in Vancouver, WA on the unceded ancestral lands of the Chinook, Cowlitz, and Klickitat nations.