Christina Wood

Christina Wood is a PhD candidate and graduate instructor in English and Creative Writing at UGA. Her fiction has appeared recently in the Paris Review, McSweeney's, Granta, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sewanee Review, and other journals. Her story "The Astronaut" won the 2018 Shirley Jackson Award for short fiction and received a “Distinguished Stories” mention in the 2019 Best American Short Stories anthology.

She has attended residencies at Spruceton Inn, The Hambidge Center, and The Wellstone Center in the Redwoods.

In the past, she was the Assistant Editor of Dorothy, a publishing project and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, where, post-graduation, she was the Junior Fellow for Fiction.