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Christina Berke is a writer and educator. She is working on an intergenerational memoir about her Chilean heritage, including the 1973 coup, through the lens of body image, interpersonal violence, and self worth.

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

Her writing has been supported by the Southampton Writers Conference and the Sewanee Writers' Conference (2022), 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 (2021), 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.