News: Christina Lovin

Little Fires, Christina Lovin’s second chapbook was a top ten finalist for the Finishing Line Press New Women’s Voices Poetry Series and will be published in early 2008.

Lovin was also recently named recipient of the Southern Women Writers’ Conference Emerging Poet Award, and will participate in the SWWC at Berry College in Georgia in late September. Her sonnet crown, “Event Horizon” placed third in the Women Who Write Annual Poetry Award and will be published in the annual anthology, Calliope. Another sonnet crown, “Clear Cut” (written during her time as writer-in-residence at the Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon), was “Commended” in the 2007 Margaret Reid Award for Traditional Forms.

She was recently invited to a four-week residency (May 2008) at Footpaths House Artists’ Retreat on the island of Flores in the Azores, Portugal. Lovin returns as a residence fellow to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in December of this year to continue work on her current project.