Christina Baker Kline
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Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In
addition to Bird in Hand, her novels include The Way Life Should Be,
Desire Lines and Sweet Water. She is Writer-in-Residence at
Fordham University.
Kline is coeditor, with Anne Burt, of a collection of personal essays
called About Face: Women Write About What They See When They
Look in the Mirror. She also commissioned and edited two widely
praised collections of original essays on the first year of
parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine and Room to
Grow. She is co-author, with her mother, Christina Looper Baker, of
a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The Conversation
Begins. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The
New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living,
Ms., Parents, and Family Life, among other places.
addition to Bird in Hand, her novels include The Way Life Should Be,
Desire Lines and Sweet Water. She is Writer-in-Residence at
Fordham University.
Kline is coeditor, with Anne Burt, of a collection of personal essays
called About Face: Women Write About What They See When They
Look in the Mirror. She also commissioned and edited two widely
praised collections of original essays on the first year of
parenthood and raising young children, Child of Mine and Room to
Grow. She is co-author, with her mother, Christina Looper Baker, of
a book on feminist mothers and daughters, The Conversation
Begins. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in The
New York Times Book Review, The Yale Review, Southern Living,
Ms., Parents, and Family Life, among other places.
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Kline was born in Cambridge, England, and raised there as well as in the American South and
Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry
Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. In addition to Fordham, she has taught fiction and nonfiction
writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, New York University,
and Drew University. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, a
Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Fordham Research
Grant. She donates her time and editing skills to a number of arts organizations in New Jersey and
Maine.
Kline has worked as a caterer, cook, and personal chef on the Maine coast, Martha’s Vineyard, and
in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband,
David Kline; three boys, Hayden, Will, and Eli; and Lucy, an English springer spaniel. She spends
summers with extended family in an even older house on Mount Desert Island in Maine.
Maine. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge, and the University of Virginia, where she was a Henry
Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. In addition to Fordham, she has taught fiction and nonfiction
writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, New York University,
and Drew University. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, a
Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and a Fordham Research
Grant. She donates her time and editing skills to a number of arts organizations in New Jersey and
Maine.
Kline has worked as a caterer, cook, and personal chef on the Maine coast, Martha’s Vineyard, and
in Charlottesville, Virginia. She lives in an old house in Montclair, New Jersey, with her husband,
David Kline; three boys, Hayden, Will, and Eli; and Lucy, an English springer spaniel. She spends
summers with extended family in an even older house on Mount Desert Island in Maine.
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