A. V. Christie

Ann Victoria Christie was born in Redwood City, California. She was raised in California's San Francisco Bay area as well as in Montana, and British Columbia. A graduate of Vassar College, she received her master of fine arts degree from the University of Maryland. She was a visiting writer and writer-in-residence at colleges along the Pennsylvania Main Line and regionally, including Villanova and La Salle universities; Bryn Mawr College; Goucher College in Baltimore; the University of Maryland, College Park; and Penn State Abington.

Her first poetry collection, Nine Skies, won the 1996 National Poetry Series prize. The poet Henri Cole described it as "hard-bitten, luxuriant and true," and the Philadelphia-area poet Eleanor Wilner called it "diamond-faceted, elliptical." W.S. DiPiero said of her 2014 collection The Wonders that "her poems invoke and respect strangeness and make strangeness feel near."[1]

Her poems, reviews, and interviews appeared in AGNI,[2] American Poetry Review, Poetry, Excerpt, Iowa Review, Commonweal, The Journal, Ploughshares,[3] and Prairie Schooner.[4]

Her collection The Housing (2004) was co-winner of the Robert McGovern Publication Prize. The Wonders (2014), a chapbook-length poem and Editor's Selection, was published by Seven Kitchens Press. Her chapbook And I Began to Entertain Doubts was published in May 2016 by Folded Word Press.[5]

Christie died of breast cancer in West Chester, Pennsylvania, aged 53.[1]

• 1997 National Poetry Series, for Nine Skies
• 2004 Robert McGovern Publication Prize co-winner, for The Housing
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Maryland State Arts Council Fellowship
• Pennsylvania State Arts Council Fellowship
• Ludwig Vogelstein Fellowship

• Nine Skies. University of Illinois Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-252-06644-3.
• The Housing. Ashland Poetry Press. 2004.
• The Wonders. Seven Kitchens Press. 2014.
• And I Began to Entertain Doubts. Folded Word Press. 2016. ISBN 978-1-610-19601-7.