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About Me:Christina Lovin is the author of two chapbooks of poetry: What We Burned for Warmth and Little Fires, #55 in the New Women’s Voices Poetry Series (both, Finishing Line Press). Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Poet Lore, The Lyric, Harvard Summer Review, Diner, Hunger Mountain, Entelechy International, Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn’t there, Susan B & Me, and many other journals and anthologies. Having studied creative writing at Harvard University’s summer writing program, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from New England College. Her work has been supported on several occasions with monetary grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the Kentucky Arts Council, including the 2007 Al Smith Fellowship. She currently presents writing workshops at various venues around the country, while continuing to teach college writing courses in central Kentucky. Writing Awards:"Coal Country" : ▪2007 Nominated for Pushcart, Triplopia ▪2007 "Best of the Best," Triplopia ▪2006 Passager Poet of the Year, Passager ▪2005 Betty Gabehart Poetry Award ▪2006 Oliver Browning Poetry Award, Poesia ▪2006 Finalist, Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪2006 High Distinction, Margaret Reid Traditional Forms Award "Event Horizon": ▪2007 Emerging Poet, Southern Women Writers' Conference ▪2007 Finalist, Rita Dove Poetry Award ▪Third Place, Women Who Write Annual Poetry Award Grand Prize Winner: ▪2007 Dancing Galliard Sonnet Contest, Prism Quarterly Finalist: ▪2007 Writers' Place Short Story Contest ▪2007 Top Ten Finalist, New Women's Voices Poetry Series, Finishing Line Press ▪2006 New Letters Poetry Award ▪2006 Mid American Review Fineline Competition ▪2005 Portlandia Press Chapbook Prize ▪2005 Backwaters Poetry Book Prize ▪2001 Rhino Poetry Magazine Reader/ Contest ▪7th Juried Reading, Poetry Center of Chicago. Honorable Mention: ▪2007 Writers' Place Anthology (for "A Stirring in the Dark") Third Place: ▪2006 Dancing Poetry Award for "A Small Universe" Writing Residencies, Fellowships, Scholarships:2008 ▪Resident Fellow, Footpaths House, Flores Island, Azores, Portugal 2007 ▪Emerging Poet, Southern Women Writers' Conference ▪Judson Jerome Scholarship, Antioch Writers’Workshop ▪Resident Fellow, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (May & December) ▪Writer-in-Residence, Andrews Experimental Forest, Blue River, Oregon (Spring Creek Project, OSU) 2006 ▪Writer-in-Residence, Devil's Tower National Monument (National Park Service & Bear Lodge Writers) ▪Resident Fellow, Vermont Studio Center 2005 ▪Bread Loaf Writers' Conference ▪Merit Scholarship, Vermont College Post Graduate Writers' Conference 2004 ▪Baron Wormser Scholarship Award,Stone Coast Writers’ Conference Grants Christina Lovin has received professional development funding and also received an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council, a state agency in the Commerce Cabinet, supported by state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.  Christina Lovin has received generous support from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. All content copyright Christina Lovin 2007 No part may be reproduced or used without permission from the author |
 Christina Lovin Little Fires Image © Doug Lawhead Artwork © Dorothy Englander Anthologies that feature my work:Susan B & Me Liaisons II New Southerner 2006 In the Eye Once a Garden Diner Annual Anthology Coal: An Anthology 2007 Capital BookFest Vacations: The good, the bad, the ugly Missing Mountains: We went to the mountaintop but it wasn't there |
