Christina Askounis grew up in a military family and has lived in places as diverse as Okinawa, New Mexico, Manhattan, and Oxford, England. She now lives in Durham, North Carolina, where she teaches creative writing to undergraduates at Duke University. In 2004 she was the recipient of a Distinguished Teaching Award.
A graduate of Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, she earned an M.A. from The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars while working as a reporter in Baltimore. Following her stint at the city desk, she became a scriptwriter for Maryland Public Television, where she wrote a Peabody Award-winning series on the environment. Her screenplay, Enchantment, was a finalist in the 2000 Moondance Film Festival.
