Christine Hume
Ypsilanti, MI
Nonfiction
Christine Hume is a writer of nonfiction and poetry with a strong interest in the intersections between gender-based violence, reproductive justice, and feminist art. Her prose has been published and reviewed in Hyperallergic, New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Art Newspaper, The Boston Review, Harper’s, Feminist Review, Electric Literature, Disabilities Studies Quarterly, Conjunctions, Architecture and Culture, and other venues. With Anna Maria Hong, she co-edited Traversals: A Folio on Walking for The Hopkins Review (2023). She has also guest edited two issues of the American Book Review, on #MeToo (2019) and Girlhood (2021). Her books include a collection of essays, Everything I Never Wanted to Know (Ohio State University Press, 2023), a lyric prose portrait of girlhood, Saturation Project (Solid Objects, 2021), as well as three books of poetry and several chapbooks, including a text image collaboration with designer Jeff Clark, Question Like a Face (Image Text Ithaca, 2017), named a Best Nonfiction Book of the Year by Brooklyn Rail. Her collaborative text image work with 2023 Guggenheim Photo Fellow, Laura Larson, All the Women I Know, an archive of women in the act of resistance, is forthcoming from St. Lucy’s Books. In 2025, a companion project featuring a selection of this collaboration as a deck of divination cards, will be part of an exhibition, FOR REAL FOR REAL, curated by Claudia Rankine, at daadgalerie in Berlin. Hume has been awarded other residencies from Image Text Ithaca in NY, Fundacion Valaparaiso in Spain; the Wurlitzer Foundation in NM; MacDowell in NH; Wild Acres in NC, and the Fine Arts Work Center in MA. Since 2001, she has been faculty in the Creative Writing program at Eastern Michigan University.