Christina Elaine Collins works as a magazine editor at a publishing company outside of Boston, Massachusetts. She was recently awarded the Lawrence Sanders Fellowship by the MFA program in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University, although she’s chosen to wait another year before beginning the program. Her most recent publications include short stories in Weave Magazine and Cliterature, and her biggest literary influences are Sylvia Plath and Emma Donoghue, who she first encountered while studying at the University of Oxford.