Christina Lux holds a Ph.D. in Romance Languages from the University of Oregon, a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from Cornell University, and Certificates in Conflict Analysis, Negotiation, and Mediating Violent Conflict from the United States Institute of Peace. She served as a short-term Cultural Envoy to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where she led creative writing workshops with youth who had survived the civil war. Her poetry has appeared on National Public Radio, in the Houston Chronicle, and in textbooks by Oxford University Press, as well as in journals such as Women's Studies Quarterly and North Dakota Quarterly. Born in Pasadena, California, she lived in Planada, California for several years before moving to Texas, then Québec, followed by five years in Cameroon, returning to the U.S. for university studies. She is currently Managing Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Merced.