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Christina Berke is a writer based in Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing.

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.

She is a Contributor at the Sewanee Writers' Conference, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Kenyon Review, and The Southampton Writers Conference. She was 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's also worked as Managing Editor of Black Mountain Institute's award-winning literary magazine Witness, and is currently working on an intergenerational novel about mothers and daughters, inherited trauma, and the 1973 military coup based on her Chilean heritage.