Chris Huntington is the author of the novel, Mike Tyson Slept Here, winner of the 2009 Fabri Literary Prize. His essays have appeared in The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Rumpus, The Millions, Poets & Writers, and elsewhere. His fiction has been in So It Goes, Solstice, the Columbia Journal, Tampa Review, Natural Bridge, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in Writing from Bennington College and an BA in English Literature from Indiana University.

He teaches English at North Central High School in Indianapolis.