Writer. Editor. Arts Fundraiser. Not always in that order.

Also mother, widow, foodie, sometime gardener, opera lover, reluctant swimmer, knitter, quilter, voracious reader, and Italophile in my DNA (literally).

About Christine

Christine Johnson-Duell is the author of the poetry chapbook, Italian Lessons and contributed to the anthology, CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing. Her poems and essays have appeared in national journals, including Poet Lore and Calyx; and she has written op-eds for The Boston Globe, The Tennessean, and The Seattle Times. Christine was writer-in-residence at several schools in Seattle and taught in the Humanities Department at Shoreline Community College. She is an alumna of Monson Arts and Hedgebrook, and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from the University of Washington.

By day, she is a fundraising consultant to arts nonprofits across the country.

Christine lives and works on Cape Cod, the unceded Native lands of the Nauset band of the Wompanoag Nation, People of the First Light.

Read some of Christine’s writing.