Christina Elaine Collins is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer whose stories have appeared in over a dozen literary periodicals and anthologies, including Jabberwock Review, Weave Magazine, and Willow, Weep No More. In addition to three Pushcart nominations, she has received Finalist and Special Mention awards in literary competitions such as the 2014 Katherine Paterson Prize in Young Adult and Children's Writing, the Heavy Feather Review 2013 Featured Fiction Chapbook Contest, and the Gambling the Aisle 2013 Chapbook Contest, as well as Second Prize in the YA category of the Greyden Press 2014 Book Competition. She loves traveling as much as writing, and has so far been to 18 countries, most recently Armenia.