Christine Maul Rice

Christine Maul Rice’s novel Swarm Theory was recently awarded Honorable Mention in the Chicago Writers Association Best Books of 2016, included in Powell’s Books Mid-Year Roundup, the Best Books of 2016 So Far, and was called “a gripping work of Midwest Gothic” by Michigan Public Radio’s Desiree Cooper. Most recently her fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming from BELT, Farleigh Dickinson University’s The Literary Review, American University of Beirut’s Rusted Radishes, F Magazine, and online at Roanoke College’s Roanoke Review, Chicago Literati, and Bird’s Thumb, among others. Her essays and long-form journalism have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Big Smoke, The Millions, the Chicago Tribune, Detroit’s Metro Times, The Good Men Project, The Urbaness.com, CellStories.net, and her radio essays have been produced by WBEZ Chicago. Christine teaches at Columbia College Chicago, is the managing editor of Hypertext Magazine, and director of Hypertext Studio Writing Center.