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Christina Brubaker was married with two small children when her husbands job relocated them to Brooklyn, NY. For him, a native Californian, the change was a bit of a shock, but since Christina was born in Queens and lived on Long Island until she was nine, the move felt more like going home. She decided the sudden change was a sign– an opportunity to finally pursue writing full time, something shed been planning since the fourth grade. Planning while simultaneously letting life get in the way, they spent a year in Brooklyn. In that time, she took three writing workshops at The Writers Studio. Once they were back in Orange County, she continued workshopping at UCLA Extension, but it was an acceptance into a community workshop at Chapman University that led to a fellowship which allowed her to pursue an MFA in creative writing, which led to a teaching position at Orange County School of the Arts. There, she discovered a knack for helping students learn how to unearth and cultivate their own unique creative voice. In the ten years since that move back east, she’s had several short stories published, as well as a non-fiction piece, and one really bad poem. Recently, she finished the first draft of a novel and while it took her a lot longer to get here, she likes to think her younger self would be pleased.