Chris Vitiello is a Durham-based writer, teacher, performer, and poet. His most recent books are Irresponsibility and Obedience (both Ahsahta Press). As the Poetry Fox, he writes custom poems on demand on vintage typewriters at over 150 events a year. As a teacher, he has led poetry workshops in public/private K-12 schools, corporate settings, prisons, shelters, and libraries. After winning a 2017 ArtPrize Pitch Night, he took his performance installation The Language Is Asleep to the Grand Rapids Art Museum, and has reprised the immersive work for Duke University’s StoryCon, Raleigh’s Block Gallery, and the Greensboro Project Space. His recent Writing Cabinet project—crossing the confessional with the fortune telling cabinet—consists of a giant armoire that returns responses to your worries, memories, fears, hopes, and more. He also writes for newspapers and magazines about art and performance, and won the 2017 Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism.