Christine Hume was born in 1968 and has lived in sixteen different states and countries. She is the author of Musca Domestica (Beacon Press 2000), winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize and Alaskaphrenia (New Issues 2004), winner of the Green Rose Award and Small Press Traffic's 2005 Best Book of the Year Award. Her work has been included in anthologies such as Best American Poetry 1997 (Scribner), American Poetry: the Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon 2000),), No Crossing Guards (University of Iowa 2004), Isn't It Romantic? (Verse 2004), The Verse Book of Interviews (Verse 2005), and Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century (Sarabande 2006), and forthcoming in 12x12  (University of Georgia).  Her work has been translated into German, Dutch, and Slovenian. In 2002, she was one of two Americans invited to an international festival, “Days of Poetry and Wine” in Slovenia; in 2006, she taught a poetry workshop in St. Petersburg for Summer Literary Seminars. The Wurlitzer Foundation in Taos, Valaparisio Foundation in Spain, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire have awarded her residencies.  She holds an M.F.A. from Columbia University (1993) and a Ph.D. from University of Denver (2000).  Currently, she is an Associate Professor at Eastern Michigan University where she teaches hybrid genre literature, poetry, and creative writing courses.