Christine Byrne is an MFA candidate in poetry at The Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she won the John Logan Poetry Prize and was selected to read for the Mission Creek Festival Literary Walk. Prior to the workshop, she studied English at the University of Connecticut. In her time there, she toured in the Connecticut Poetry Circuit and received a Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. Christine was previously the AV editor for Another Chicago Magazine and is currently a poetry reader for the Iowa Review. In addition to writing, Christine is a painter and ceramist. Her most recent poetry appears or is forthcoming in Pacifica, Barnstorm, the New England Review, and elsewhere