Christina Wood is a fiction writer with short stories appearing in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, Mississippi Review, and elsewhere. Her story “The Astronaut” won the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction and received a “Distinguished Stories” mention in the 2019 Best American Short Stories anthology. Her nonfiction appears in the Los Angeles Review of Books and McNeese Review.

In the past, she was the Assistant Editor of Dorothy, a publishing project and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.

Originally from Southern California, she has an MFA in Creative Writing from Washington University in St. Louis and now lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is an ABD PhD candidate in English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia. She is the founder and editor of echoverse, an anthology of writing about place, the environment, and climate change.