Christopher is an internationally recognized writer of speculative fiction, most recently as author of the novel Flight of the Chicxulub, a tale of outlaw Latinopunks which Kirkus Reviews describes as a “richly drawn world with its own complex culture and struggles. As the story bounces deftly from SF to action-oriented thrills and eventually a kind of transcendent mysticism, Flakus maintains a strong narrative voice and a clear vision, and shows deep care for these characters and their relationships along the way. The result satisfies all the expectations of the genre while feeling wholly original and exciting. Readers who enjoy exciting actioners set in unique but still recognizable futuristic settings will find a lot to like here.” Christopher is also the winner of The Brussels Review TBR Dark award for the titular story of the anthology. In the words of The Brussels Review Editor in Chief, “At the heart of this collection is a concern with transformation—not just of bodies, societies, or technologies, but of thought itself. In Christopher Miguel Flakus’s “A True Good Man,” a man’s fear of mechanized medicine leads him to a confrontation with prejudice, vulnerability, and the last remnants of a fading war between humans and sentient machines. The story challenges notions of trust, repair, and inter-species inheritance, asking whether memory or function defines a person—or a machine.” Christopher formerly received an InPrint C. Glenn Cambor Fellowship in 2019 and graduated from The University of Houston with an MFA in Fiction in 2023. He was awarded the Fabian Worsham prize for fiction in 2017 as an undergrad at The University of Houston-Downtown. Christopher has twice attended and received an honorary degree from The Institute for World Literature, most recently over a month-long period of study and presentations, talks, and colloquiums in Mainz, Germany, 2022. He has been an active member of international academics since, returning to Ireland yearly. Christopher is also a contributing staff member of both the Dublin-based literary journal New Square Magazine (where much of his published work can be found) and is also an active member in the Journal’s literary society, the Sancho Panza Literary society, captained by the Irish-American novelist and professor, Joseph Reynolds. Christopher’s work can be found in Reverie Magazine, Glass: Poetry, Houston Public Media, Anti-Heroin Chic, UH’s Poetry and Prose series, Texas Monthly Magazine, The Huffington Post, Black Heart Magazine, New Square Magazine, The Bilingue Review, Dark Speculations horror fiction anthology, Grim and Gilded, and elsewhere.