Christina Clancy
Author
I’m the author of three novels: The Snowbirds (coming February 4, 2025), Shoulder Season, and The Second Home, St. Martin’s Press. My work has appeared in The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, and in various literary journals. I have a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
My writing reflects my deep and abiding love for place, and explores our often entrenched and complicated ideas about home: leaving home, returning home, finding a new home, and considering under what conditions, and with which people, we feel at home.
In The Second Home, siblings Ann, Poppy and Michael felt they were their best, most authentic selves in the old house in Wellfleet, and worry that losing the house might mean losing who they are as a family. In Shoulder Season, Sherri Taylor grew up thinking there was a bigger, better life than in her small town of East Troy, Wisconsin. And in The Snowbirds, Grant and Kim think they have to leave home in order to find each other and spend a winter in Palm Springs.
I received a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and I taught English for almost a decade at Beloit College. I live in Madison, Wisconsin with my very tall husband John. We have two kids, Olivia and Tim, and a dog named Bunny. I’m a supporter of environmental causes and serve as an ambassador of the Wisconsin Book Festival. I love to swim, bike, run and hike (and not get lost). I enjoy reading, visiting bookstores, traveling and spending time with friends and family. I love to hear from readers, and I enjoy joining book clubs via zoom and in real life.
