Christine McNair has been published in Descant, CV2, Prairie Fire, Arc, ditchpoetry.com, Poetry is Dead, ottawater, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and sundry other places. She won second prize (poetry) in the Atlantic Canadian Writing Competition, an honourable mention in the Eden Mills Literary Competition and was shortlisted for the 2010 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her first book is forthcoming from BookThug in spring 2012. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.