Christina Milletti’s novel Choke Box: a Fem-Noir won the Juniper Prize for Fiction from the University of Massachusetts Press. Her fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in many journals and anthologies, such as Best New American Voices, the Iowa Review, The Master’s Review, Denver Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review, Studies in the Novel, Zeta, the Brooklyn Rail, American Letters & Commentary, Experimental Fiction and the Buffalo News (among other places).
She is an Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo where she is currently the Interim Director of UB’s Humanities Institute. Recently, she won the Patron’s Prize from Thornwillow Press which published her winning short story “The Girling Season” in a special letterpress chapbook edition. It is one of the stories in her new (almost completed) collection called Now You See Her which she will be working on during her residency at Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts.