A recent MFA grad from San Diego State University, Christine is a poet and a teacher of literature.  Major influences include her parents, Walt Whitman, Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins and more recently Weldon Kees.  She often contemplates being: an essayist, literary critic, novelist, poet, screenwriter, filmmaker, professor of Russian Literature, owner of a bed and breakfast and a vineyard, and a mother.  If only one of these happens, she will be completely satisfied. (Actually, she already is).