Who Is She?

Christina Berke is a writer and educator based in Los Angeles with a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing.

She was the 2022 Katharine Bakeless Nason Contributor Award Recipient in Nonfiction at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont where she studied with Melissa Febos. Her fiction manuscript, an intergenerational novel about mothers and daughters, inherited trauma, and the 1973 military coup in Chile based on interviews with her grandmother, won Honorable Mention for the 2023 Miami Book Fair Emerging Writers Fellowship.

Christina is currently working on Well, Body: a memoir on body image, eating disorders, and childhood trauma.

More info is at www.christinaberke.com.

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I'm a Los Angeles based writer currently working on Well, Body: a memoir on body image, eating disorders, and childhood trauma. More at www.christinaberke.com.