ABOUT CHRISTINE
Christine Hemp has aired her poems and essays on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition. Her essay about sending a poem of hers into space on a NASA rocket won her a First Place Northwest Society of Professional Journalism Award. And her current memoir manuscript earned her a Washington State Artist Trust Fellowship for Literature. Hemp’s work has appeared in such publications as the Iowa Review, Harvard Magazine, Boston Review, ZYZZYVA, Christian Science Monitor, Maine Times, the Drunken Boat, and in anthologies by Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Orchard Press. Her poetry collection “That Fall” was selected for the New Women’s Voices Series at Finishing Line Press. Her art and travel writing has appeared nationally.
Hemp's awards include a Harvard University Conway Award for Teaching Writing, two Barbara Deming/Money for Women grants, the Donald Murray Award at UC Davis, a fellowship for a residency at Vermont Studio Center, First Runner-Up in the Iowa Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the Paula Jones Gardiner Award for Poetry at Floating Bridge Press.
“Connecting Chord,” Hemp’s program with police officers and youth-at-risk, began in 2000 when she spent a week in England with Metropolitan Police officers and youth offenders in the highest crime-rate borough of London – using poetry as a tool for crime prevention. Hemp received a plaque from the English Poetry Society; the Brixton Chief of Police called her program a “milestone event.” She teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.
Hemp's awards include a Harvard University Conway Award for Teaching Writing, two Barbara Deming/Money for Women grants, the Donald Murray Award at UC Davis, a fellowship for a residency at Vermont Studio Center, First Runner-Up in the Iowa Award for Literary Non-Fiction and the Paula Jones Gardiner Award for Poetry at Floating Bridge Press.
“Connecting Chord,” Hemp’s program with police officers and youth-at-risk, began in 2000 when she spent a week in England with Metropolitan Police officers and youth offenders in the highest crime-rate borough of London – using poetry as a tool for crime prevention. Hemp received a plaque from the English Poetry Society; the Brixton Chief of Police called her program a “milestone event.” She teaches at the University of Iowa Summer Writing Festival. She lives in Port Townsend, Washington.