Christine Hemp is an author, poet, speaker, and innovative teacher. She has taught at Harvard University, University of New Mexico, the Iowa Summer Writing Festival, Seattle’s Hugo House, and at numerous organizations, including the London Metropolitan Police (how poetry can be used as a tool for crime prevention). 

Her poems and essays have aired on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and have appeared in The New York Times, Salon.com, Iowa Review, Harvard Magazine, and in anthologies published by Macmillan and Simon & Schuster. She is the author of Wild Ride Home (Arcade Publishing, 2020), a personal memoir. 

Her awards include a Harvard University Conway Award for Teaching Writing, two Barbara Deming Money for Women grants, and the Donald Murray Prize for creative nonfiction. She was first runner-up in the Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction. Her essay about sending one of her poems into space on a NASA rocket received a Northwest Society of Professional Journalism Award. 

Christine has a BA from Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, and an MA from Middlebury College in Vermont, with study at Lincoln College, Oxford, England. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington, with two horses, two cats, and one husband.