Christina Hutchins (b 1961) is the author of three books of poetry: The Stranger Dissolves (Sixteen Rivers Press, 2011), Radiantly We Inhabit the Air (Robin Becker Chapbook Prize, Seven Kitchen's Press, 2011) and Collecting Light (Acacia Books, 1999). Her poems have appeared in many publications, including Antioch Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, The Missouri Review, The New Republic, Salmagundi, The Southern Review, and Women's Review of Books. She holds a B.S. in biochemistry from University of California, Davis, an M.Div. from Harvard University, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies from Graduate Theological Union. Her academic works brings together philosophies of creativity, poetry, and feminist/queer critical theory, and appears in volumes by Ashgate, Columbia University Press, and State University of New York Press. She has worked as a biochemist and a Congregational minister, and is currently the Lecturer in Theology and Literary Arts at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley. Her awards include The Missouri Review Editors' Prize, National Poetry Review's Finch Prize, two Barbara Deming Awards, and fellowships from Villa Montalvo Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, and the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia. She lives in Albany, CA.