Christine Vines is a fiction writer from Wichita, KS. Her writing has appeared in One Story, BOMB, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Literature, The Chicago Tribune, Book of the Month’s Volume 0, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Steinbeck Center, the Carson McCullers Center, the Key West Literary Seminar, the Nelson Algren Award, the Hambidge Center, Write On Door County, the Joshua Tree Highlands Artists Residency, and the Catwalk Institute, among other organizations. Her work has also been rejected by publishers and organizations too numerous to count. She currently teaches creative writing at Vassar College.