
Christine Hemp has aired her essays and poems on NPR’s Morning Edition, and a poem of hers has traveled over a billion miles on a NASA mission to monitor the pre-natal activity of stars. Her awards include a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature, an Iowa Review Award for Nonfiction, and the Harvard University Extension Award for Teaching Writing. She is a speaker for the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau with her talk “From Homer to #hashtags,” which explores our evolving language. She is the author of That Fall (poems) and her debut memoir, Wild Ride Home: Love, Loss and a Little White Horse (Arcade/Skyhorse 2020), has just been released. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington with two horses, two cats, and one husband.