Christine Pountney is a writer, teacher, artist, and therapist whose work has been published to great critical acclaim in Canada and the UK.
Christine was born in Vancouver and grew up in Montreal. She studied English Literature at McGill University and at University College Dublin. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia, where she published her first novel, Last Chance Texaco, with Faber and Faber (longlisted for the Orange Prize in 2000). She has since published two more novels, The best way you know how and Sweet Jesus.
She has written for The Erotic Review, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New York Times Magazine, The Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, Elle, Flare, Nuvo, The New Quarterly, Brick, and Hazlitt Magazine.
She has written a film adaptation of her novel Last Chance Texaco and an original feature, called The Riot Act.
Over the past few years, Christine has participated in many Indigenous healing ceremonies, and is currently writing a spiritual memoir about those experiences.
She teaches creative writing classes under the moniker, Write Your Heart Out, and practices a hybrid therapy, called The Mothering Technique, inspired by her on-going training in shamanism, Reiki, and Core Energetics.
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