She teaches courses in creative writing, poetry, literary theory and Asian American literature. Her first collection of poems, Birds of Paradise, was published in 2011, and her second collection, Sky Country, is forthcoming in fall 2017. For the past five summers, she has worked as a teaching and research assistant with Dr. Dennis Ogawa at the University of Hawaii Manoa. In 2014, she co-chaperoned the University of Hawaii TOMODACHI Inouye Scholars on their trip to Tokyo and Matsuyama. She will again co-chaperone the TOMODACHI Inouye Scholars on their trip to Japan in March 2017. She earned a B.A. from U.C. Riverside, an M.F.A. from Syracuse University and a Ph.D. from Texas Tech University. Christine was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA.