Christine Vines is a fiction writer from Wichita, KS. Her work has appeared in One Story, BOMB, Witness, Joyland, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Electric Literature, The Chicago Tribune, Book of the Month’s Volume 0, and elsewhere. She was a runner-up for the 2018 Nelson Algren Literary Award, a fiction finalist for The Missouri Review’s 2018 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize, and the winner of the 2022 Cecilia Joyce Johnson Award for the Short Story from the Key West Literary Seminar. She was Vassar College’s 2018 W.K. Rose Fellow, a 2018-2019 Steinbeck Fellow, the 2020 Marguerite and Lamar Smith Fellow at the Carson McCullers Center, and a 2021-2022 writer-in-residence at the Hambidge Center, the Catwalk Institute, Write On Door County, the Joshua Tree Highlands Artists Residency, and elsewhere. She received her MFA from Cornell University, and has taught English and creative writing at Cornell, San José State University, and the Telluride Association. She currently teaches creative writing at Vassar College. For four years, she ran the Fiction Addiction reading series in NYC.

She is at work on a novel and a story collection.