Christopher Linforth is the author of four story collections, Very Short Lives (2027), The Distortions (2022), Directory (Reissue 2026; Italian 2024; 2020), and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (2014). Christopher's stories have been published in more than one hundred literary magazines. Recent fiction appears in the Barcelona Review, Oxford Review of Books, Nature, Notre Dame Review, Banshee, Books Ireland, Witness, The Arkansas International, Fiction International, Southern Humanities Review, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, Hotel Amerika, BULL, New World Writing, Popshot, Prism International, Consequence, Epiphany, and Best Microfiction.

In the last few years, he has been awarded fellowships and scholarships to the BAU Institute at the Camargo Foundation, Kone Foundation, Fondation Heinrich Maria & Jane Ledig-Rowohlt (Château de Lavigny), Vermont Studio Center, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Ragdale Foundation, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Hambidge Center, International Writers' and Translators' House in Ventspils, and the Irish Writers Centre.

Christopher has also published essays in The Millions, Quarter After Eight, The Pinch, South Dakota Review, twice in the University of East Anglia's Hinterland, and in A Harp in the Stars: An Anthology of Lyric Essays (University of Nebraska Press, 2021), and his book reviews have appeared in World Literature Today, New Pages, Necessary Fiction, The Rumpus, Southern Review of Books, Rain Taxi, the Colorado Review, and other outlets.

Christopher is currently working on a novel and a new story collection and a series of TV, theatre, and radio scripts.