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Chris received his Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Maryland, College Park with a focus on Creative Writing. His script for The Studio, which focused on the plight of the homeless, earned an Individual Artist’s Grant from the Maryland State Arts Council in 2001. His script for 2004 RECONCILIATION WALK for SLAVERY and PENITENCE held in Annapolis, Maryland helped garner the Maryland Tourism Council Global Marketing Award for the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. Writings include the poetry collections, Obsessions,Until The Right One Comes Along, and the radio play, The Courtship of Jo and Eddie. Several of his letters, speeches and poems have been printed in publications as diverse as Hill Rag, Catholic Library World, Bay Windows, Northwest Gay and Lesbian reader and Playboy magazine. Two of his self-produced, directed, and written short films, The Studio and B&B, debuted in 2005 at the Greenbelt Utopia Film and Video Festival and Annapolis Film Festivals. He was a featured reader of his poems, “An African American Dream of 2018,” and “Four Cherries” at the Literary Hill BookFest 2020 online event. Arlington Magazine writer and Literary Hill BookFest Board Member, Tamar Abrams, said of Haley, “Your voice deserves to be heard!” His next book of poetry, My Mind Has Many Windows, is also slated for publication in 2022. He received the Arts Council of Anne Arundel County 2021 Literary Arts Annie Award. He co-directed, co-produced, and co-wrote the Capital Region Emmy 2021 nominated documentary, Unmarked, on graves and cemeteries of free and enslaved African Americans.
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