Christina Olson is the author of the full-length collections Terminal Human Velocity and Before I Came Home Naked as well as the chapbooks Weird Science and Rook & The M.E. Her chapbook The Last Mastodon won the 2019 Rattle Chapbook Prize. Her third full-length collection, The Anxiety Workbook, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press’s Pitt Poetry Series in 2023.
Her poetry & creative nonfiction has appeared in more than a hundred magazines & journals, including The Atlantic, Brevity, DIAGRAM, Gastronomica, The Nation, The Normal School, Poetry Daily, Scientific American, Verse Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume Three.
She is the former poetry editor of Midwestern Gothic and the recipient of full fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Willapa Bay AiR. Christina is an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University and a past visiting faculty member in the Murray State University low-res MFA program. In 2019, she joined the faculty of the Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference. From 2020-2023, she served as director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit. She tweets about mastodons, coney-style hot dogs, her three idiot rescue dogs, and other current fixations as @olsonquest.