Christy Wise

Christy Wise’s chapbook, Tangible Terrain, was published by Finishing Line Press in April, 2024. Her poems and essays appear in Red Flag Poetry, Bayou Magazine, Broad River Review, Cathesix Northwest Press and The Dewdrop,among other magazines.

Christy’s poem “Tony’s Cocoon” was a finalist in the Julia Darling Memorial Poetry Prize. Her essay “Memory Book” was designated a notable essay in Best American Essays of 2010. Her poems are published in anthologies including SPANK the CARP 2022 and Upside Down and From Below, Marin Poetry Center Anthology 2020.

With her mother, Nancy Baker Wise, Christy co-authored A Mouthful of Rivets: Women at Work in World War II, oral histories by women employed in non-traditional jobs during the Second World War. (Jossey-Bass Publishers)

A fourth-generation Californian, Christy cherishes walks along the Pacific Ocean and hikes in Desolation Wilderness.