Current Work, Publications, and Interviews

Short stories ranging from love and loss to humorous mishaps. Personal essays about living as a 20-something in Los Angeles and New York. Academic research papers about human rights and social justice issues. Poems about loss, love, and hope. 

Fiction

Short stories 
  • "Shipping and Receiving" (in progress)
  • "God is Good" (in progress)
  • "Maude" 
  • "Casey is the Worst" (young adult) 
  • "He Won't Ever Know"
  • "Fishbar" (originally published February 2016, Literary Orphans) 
  • "Numb" (originally published April 2016, Eleven and a Half)
  • "A Pear in an Asparagus World" (young adult) 
  • "Welcome to the Family"
  • "Black Like Coffee"
  • "Love, Interrupted" (flash fiction)
  • "Charlie"
  • "Fishing In Russia"
 
Novels 
  • OkCupid: A Love Story (in progress; Chapter 1 excerpt originally featured in The Underground, Volume 17, December 2015). 
  • V (in progress) 
  • The Principal Wears Prada (in progress)


Poetry
  • "Scotty B."
  • "That Night"
  • "December" (originally published in The Moorpark Review, 2007)
  • "Two Woods"
  • "Disabled"

Interviews about CB

  •  ​Interview with The Palisades News by Laura Abruscato "Christina Berke is Revere's New Librarian"
March 4, 2015
http://www.paulreverems.com/cms/lib06/CA01001485/
​Centricity/Domain/11/Palisades-News-March-4-2015%204.pdf

  • Interview with Uluc Ulgen of New York-based Podcast Murmur 
"Rats, Bed bugs, Ghosts, Trust-fund babies. The list goes on. A poor housing situation can very easily break one's spirits. Christina Berke and I discuss some of these lovely scenarios." 
October 26, 2015 
https://twitter.com/murmurpodcast

Interviews by CB
  • Interview with National Book Award Lifetime Achievement Winner Wendell Berry 
March 2016 
http://newschoolwriting.org/interview-with-wendell-berry-nbcc-lifetime-achievement-award-winner/
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  • Interview with Aspen Matis on her memoir Girl in the Woods
"Aspen Matis: Twenty-Five and Thriving"
January 2016
http://newschoolwriting.org/aspen-matis-twenty-five-and-thriving-by-christina-berke/


Blogs
Write in the City
This site is intended to provide writing advice from events throughout NYC and from published authors from past courses, to publish personal essays, and to create a community for writers everywhere.

NYCVB
This personal blog was created for family and friends. It is a daily journal in words and photos of a 30-year-old Los Angeles woman about life in New York City.
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Nonfiction

Personal Essays and Articles 
More can be found on Thought Catalog, The Odyssey, Elite Daily, The Berry, and SrYear. 

Memoirs 
  • The Lost Twin (in progress)
  • "Piles" (excerpt) (Originally published at UCLA, Summer 2012)
  • "Sitting in the Kitchen" (excerpt)
  • "A Brief History" (excerpt)    

Academic Papers 
  • "Humanistic Teaching in the Urban Classroom"
Masters thesis paper was presented at UCLA's Teacher Education Program on the implementation of the theories of Noddings, Valenzuela and Freire as a means to transform a standards-based regimented classroom culture. Key components of this process (reflective practice and a problem-posing pedagogy) illustrate the possibilities of how teachers can use these frameworks to build classrooms on foundations of authentic care and shift teachers' and students' identities.  (Originally published in June 2013, UCLA.)

  • "Women, War, and Media"
Bachelor thesis project based on the Truth Commissions of South Africa and Guatemala, paying particular attention to the representation of women in the media from these countries, especially during wartime and after. (Originally published Spring 2010, University of California, Berkeley.)
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  • "Is He Earnest or Ernest? False Appearances in Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest" 
Literary analysis on Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest (Originally published Spring 2007, Student Essay Anthology, Moorpark College, Volume 2.)

Journalism 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES 

UC Berkeley Professors Elected To National Science Academy
February 24, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105500

Panda Express Contract Draws Student Protest
March 9, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=104730

Recent Stabbing Case Brings Revision of County Bail Policies
March 17, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=104895

Remaining Suspects in February Robbery Turn Themselves in to Police
April 1, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105038

Student Advocate Candidates See Different Roles for Office
April 7, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105143

Businesses Take New Approach to Pennies
April 9, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105180

Local Alliance for Homeless Animals to Receive Award
April 14, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105258

Berkeley City Council Will Vote On Climate Action Plan Review
April 21, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105356

UC Research Center Wins Software Grant
April 23, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105392

UC Berkeley Professors Elected To National Science Academy
April 30, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105500

Professors Urge Calm at Forum on Swine Flu
May 5, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105578

UC Berkeley to House Artifact Collections In New Facility
May 18, 2009
http://archive.dailycal.org/article.php?id=105701
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