Christina Clancy

Christina Clancy was born in Denver and raised in Milwaukee. She graduated from the University of Minnesota and worked at IBM before returning to school to earn a PhD in creative writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. After graduating, she taught English at Beloit College for a decade before turning to writing full time.

Her novels have been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, Travel & Leisure, Buzzfeed, Pop Sugar, and Shelf Awareness. Her short stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Sun Magazine and in various literary journals including Pleiades, Hobart, LitHub, The Minnesota Review, Glimmer Train Stories, and the Yalobusha Review.

She lives in Madison with her very tall husband in their 1916 prairie-style house and she “snowbirds” in Palm Springs as much as she can. She has two grown children who live in Chicago and New York City, and she has a little white dog named Bunny who loves everyone. She’s a super smeller who can’t stand cilantro, a frequent flyer junkie, a terrible cook, a former cycling instructor, and an avid reader who wishes everyone would read on airplanes. She loves to practice yoga and barre, swim, travel, write, teach, visit book clubs, and join other writers in conversation.

You can sign up for her newsletter, contact her directly via email, and access press materials below.