Christine Larussoholds a B.A. from Fordham University (Lincoln Center) and an M.F.A. in creative writing from New York University. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Literary Review, Pleiades, Women's Studies Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Prelude, Court Green, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the 2017 winner of the Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize, and has been named a finalist for both the Orlando Poetry Prize and the James Hearst Poetry Prize. Her poem 'Lunar Understanding' was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is a producer for Rachel Zucker's podcast Commonplace. She is from Los Angeles, and currently lives there with her partner, critic and editor Colin Beckett and their dog, who does not have a job. She moved home to California after spending a decade in Brooklyn.