Christina Wood is a prose writer with short stories appearing in The Paris Review, Granta, McSweeney’s, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review and other journals. 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.

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 an editor for Brink Books and a graduate editor for The Georgia 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. She founded and edited echoverse, a digital anthology of writing and art on the topic of place, environment, and climate change.