​Born in northeastern Pennsylvania close to  the Pocono Mountains and raised in Michigan near Lake St. Clair, Christopher Mahon moved after college to the Bay Area in California. Currently, he lives in Los Angeles.

He has worked as a writer and editor for legal and educational publishers and also as a high school English teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

​His fiction, nonfiction, and poetry have been published in magazines and newspapers including Freedom Fiction Journal, The Chrysalis Reader; The Merton Seasonal; Litbreak Magazine; The Jessamyn West Review; War, Literature & the Arts; Education News; The San Mateo County Times; The (San Diego) North County Times; and The San Jose Mercury News. 

He has also published a book of short stories, A Year With Charlie Fine, and a book of poems, County Clare and Other Poems. 

In his literary journeys, he has found fellow writers in all of his major creative domains: as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame, where he was deeply involved in its vibrant literary community; with other poets at Cody's Books in Berkeley; talking and laughing with fellow literary travelers in the taverns and restaurants of North Beach in San Francisco; and now in Los Angeles, where spirited writers continue to appear online and in person.