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Christine M. Lasek

Christine M. Lasek-White is the Internship and Career Coordinator for the Humanities serving the humanities programs in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, including the departments of English, Classics, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, Germanic & Slavic Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, and Romance Languages. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of South Florida, where she served as the Managing Editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art.

The first 30 years of Christine's life were spent in southeast Michigan. She grew up in Troy and graduated from the University of Michigan--Ann Arbor in 2003. Prior to pursuing a degree in creative writing, she worked as a web editor and public relations official for companies in and around Detroit, including WXYZ-TV Channel 7 and Crain's Detroit Business.

Christine's fiction and nonfiction have been published in literary magazines, including Coal City Review, The Sierra Nevada Review, Tampa Review Online, and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana, among others. Her collection of short stories, Love Letters to Michigan, was recently published by ELJ Publications.

Christine lives in Athens, Georgia, with her husband and their feline overlord, China.