CHRISTINA BERKE MFA M.Ed. is a Chilean-American writer and educator based in the Los Angeles area (Chumash territory) with a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Nonfiction Writing.

She was the 2022 Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award Recipient in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her fiction manuscript, an intergenerational novel about mothers and daughters, inherited trauma, and the 1973 military coup in Chile based on her maternal family’s history, won Honorable Mention for the 2022 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship. A former Managing Editor for Black Mountain Institute’s award-winning literary magazine, Witness, she now reads memoir for Split Lip Magazine.

Her writing has been supported by the Sewanee Writers' Conference, the Kenyon Review Teacher’s Workshop, Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, Storyknife and elsewhere. Christina is working on WELL, BODY, a memoir on body image, eating disorders, and childhood trauma. An excerpt of this was Longlisted with Disquiet Literary International.

A former middle school English teacher, Christina is an Adjunct Professor of English and teaches creative writing classes with The Porch online and within her community.