Christine Hume

Poet, Creative Nonfiction Writer

Ypsilanti, MI

Michigan US

Email:

chume@emich.edu

Website:

christinehume.com/

Author's Bio

Christine Hume is the author of a collection of essays on sex offenders and women’s bodies, Everything I Never Wanted to Know, (Ohio State University Press/21st Century Essays Series, 2023) and a lyric portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), which The New York Times says, “arrives with the force of a hurricane.” Her three books of poetry—Musca Domestica, Alaskaphrenia, and Shot—earned the Barnard New Women Poets Prize, The Green Rose Award, SPD’s Best Book of the Year Award, and chapbooks have been published by Ugly Duckling Presse, Omnidawn, Essay Press, and PANK. Her collaboration with Jeff Clark, Question Like a Face (Image Text Ithaca) was named a Brooklyn Rail Best Nonfiction Book of 2017. Since 2001, she has been faculty in the Creative Writing program at Eastern Michigan University.

Publications & Prizes

Creative Nonfiction

Book:

Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021)

Poetry

Anthologies:

Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics of Social Engagement (Wesleyan University Press, 2018)

American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)

Best American Poetry 1997 (Scribner, 1997)

Books:

Shot (Counterpath Press, 2010)

Alaskaphrenia (New Issues Press, 2004)

Musca Domestica (Beacon Press, 2000)

Journals:

Boston Review

Fence

New American Writing

New Republic

Rhizome

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

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Last update: Jan 18, 2023