Christina Petrides

Born in Texas and raised in the Central Savannah River Area (CSRA) of Georgia, United States, Christina E. Petrides lived and worked in Washington, DC, 2003-2013 and on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 2017-2023.

Her first children's book, Blueberry Man, was published by Tchaikovsky Family Books in 2020; the Korean and Kindle ebook versions were issued in 2021. Christina's second children's book, The Refrigerator Ghost, was published by Kong Books, Seoul, in Korean translation in March 2022. Her third children's book, Tea Cakes, Quilts, and Sonshine, was issued by Tchaikovsky Family Books in September 2022. Her fourth children's book, Mr. Fisher's Whiskers, was first issued by Cep Books in July 2024.

Scores of Christina's poems have been published in periodicals worldwide. Her first poetry collection, On Unfirm Terrain, was published by Kelsay Books in November 2022.

Christina is the primary translator of Maria Shelyakhovskaya’s Utverzhdenie v liubvi. Istoria odnoi russkoi sem’i: 1872-1981 (St. Petersburg: Zvezda, 2010), which was issued in 2023 as Being Grounded in Love: A History of One Russian Family, 1872-1981 by Three String Books at Slavica Publishers.

Christina is overseeing the illustration of her fifth children's book, My Batty Aunt Betty, with plans to publish in English and in Korean in Fall 2025. She is also writing more poetry, and records her adventures in a Substack.