Christina Olson is the author of The Anxiety Workbook, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press’s Pitt Poetry Series, and named the finalist for Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2024. She is also 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.: A Law & Order-Inspired Narrative. Her chapbook The Last Mastodon, based on her time as poet-in-residence at the Western Science Center in Hemet, CA, won the 2019 Rattle Chapbook Prize.
Her poetry & creative nonfiction has appeared in more than a hundred magazines & journals, including The Atlantic, Brevity, DIAGRAM, Fourth Genre, Gastronomica, The Nation, The Normal School, Poetry Daily, Scientific American, Verse Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume Three. She was recognized with Distinguished Scholarly/Creative Activity Award in College of Arts & Humanities at GSU in 2020.
She is the former poetry editor of Midwestern Gothic (RIP) and the recipient of full fellowships to the Vermont Studio Center and Willapa Bay AiR residencies. Christina is a full 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. She is also current director of the Georgia Poetry Circuit, a role she previously held from 2020-2023.
