Christine Jessica Margaret Reilly attended the MFA program at Sarah Lawrence College. She has won full scholarships to the Sarah Lawrence Summer Poetry Seminar and Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, the Smithson Prize, and was finalist in the Pulled Pork University Chapbook Competition. She has been published in thirty-five journals, one anthology and has been named “Editor’s Pick” in Breadcrumb Scabs’ Literary Magazine. Christine is currently writing a novel and lives in New York. She writes best in longhand, underground, and in transit (particularly, the G train). She has worked under the mentorship of G.C. Waldrep, Marie Howe, Shara McCallum, Jeffrey McDaniel, and others. She has four muses, three of which are imaginary.
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Selected Poetry
- Names
- We Spend So Much of Our Time Going In and Out of Bathrooms
- Mr. Potato Head and the Five Senses
- Nightmare #37
- What Makes You Sad and Isn’t Supposed to Make You Sad
- First Journey Alone
- Second Adolescence in Vienna, Paris, Bruges, Amsterdam
- The Spare Part Unused Mercantile
- After the Umbilical Cord
- To Take Care