Christina Lux

Poet

Merced, CA
California US
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Author's Bio

Christina Lux's poetry has appeared on National Public Radio, in the Houston Chronicle, in textbooks by Oxford University Press, and in journals such as Women's Studies Quarterly and North Dakota Quarterly.  Her book of poems, War Bonds, is forthcoming from FlowerSong Press March 1, 2024. Born in Pasadena, California, she lived in the Central Valley of California for several years before moving to Texas, then Québec, and finally spending five years in Cameroon, where she lived in the Bui Division of the Northwest Province as well as in Yaoundé before returning to the U.S. for university. She holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon and is currently Managing Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Feminist and Queer Theories: A Transnational Reader (Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Reader: Intersectional and Interdisciplinary Approaches. 2nd Edition. (Oxford University Press, 2020)
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Introduction to Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Approaches. 1st Edition (Oxford University Press, 2017)
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#NousSommesParis (Eyewear Publishing, 2016)
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A Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford (Woodley Press, 2013)
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To the Stars Through Difficulties (Mammoth Publications, 2012)
Book:
War Bonds (FlowerSong Press, 2024)
Journals: , ,
Salome Magazine
Prizes won: 

Honorable Mention Award for Best Paper, Ecological Society of America’s Education Section, 2019 (for an article on incorporating poetry into conservation science)
Kansas Notable Book Award, 2013 (collective award for a poetry anthology edited by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg)
 

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Sony Lab'ou Tansi, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Tony Morrison, Juan Felipe Herrera, Octavia Butler, Boubacar Boris Diop, Denise Levertov, Bole Butake, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Williams Sassine, Makuchi, Wole Soyinka, Etel Adnan, Carmen Laforet, Abdourahman Waberi, Alejo Carpentier, Edwidge Danticat, Esteban Echeverría, J.M. Coetzee, Maryse Condé, Edouard Glissant, Aimé Césaire, René Depestre, Frankétienne, Albert Camus, Apollinaire, Julien Gracq, Ousmane Sembène, Assia Djebar, Leila Sebbar, Junot Díaz, Véronique Tadjo, Antonine Maillet, Jacques Poulin, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Tretheway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Rumi, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Emily Dickinson, Maxine Hong Kingston, Gwendolyn Brooks, Bessie Head.

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Any
Fluent in: 
English, French
Born in: 
Pasadena, CA
California
Raised in: 
Cameroon
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Last update: Feb 17, 2024