Christine Gelineau is the author of three full-length collections of poetry: REMORSELESS LOYALTY (2006), published as the winner of the Richard Snyder Prize from Ashland Poetry Press; APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE (2010), a book-length sequence that won the Robert McGovern Prize, also from Ashland; and CRAVE (2016) from NYQ Books. Her essays, poems, and reviews have been published widely in venues such as New Letters, Green Mountains Review, Prairie Schooner, New York Times, and many others. A recipient of the Pushcart Prize for her poem “Sockanosett,” three of her essays have been cited as Notable Essays in the Best American Essays. A native of New England, Gelineau has lived for some decades now on a farm in upstate New York where she and her husband raise Morgan horses. Gelineau teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Maslow Family Graduate Creative Writing Program at Wilkes University. She recently retired from Binghamton University, where she taught literature and served as Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program and coordinator of the Readers’ Series.
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