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Christina Berke is a writer and educator. She is working on an intergenerational memoir about her Chilean grandmother's friendship with President Salvador Allende during the 1973 coup.

Previous fiction appears in Noyo Review, Literary Orphans, The Hunger, and The Haven, among other publications. Nonfiction pieces are in Teen Vogue, Pop Sugar, Style Caster, NPR’s Desert Companion, Ed Surge, Pithead Chapel, Cleaver, and elsewhere.

Her writing has been supported by the Kenyon Review, the Southampton Writers Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and she has been an Author Fellow with the Martha's Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing, a Norma Watkins Fellow with the Mendocino Coast Writers' Conference, and a Writing Fellow with the National Writing Project.

A former middle school English teacher, Christina holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.Ed. from UCLA.

She is currently Managing Editor of Black Mountain Institute's award-winning literary magazine Witness.