Christine Potter

Christine Potter lives in a haunted house--for real. Besides the ghosts that turned up in a recent investigation, she shares her digs with her church musician husband (plus his two pipe organs) and a pair of very spoiled cats. She's been assured that her ghosts are harmless, just "very old spirits who don't want to leave," which is understandable. It's a comfy place.

Christine is the author of the time-traveling YA series, The Bean Books, on EVERNIGHT TEEN: Time Runs Away With Her (Book One), In Her Own Time (Book Two), What Time Is It There? (Book Three), Gracie's Time (Book Four), and The After Times (Book Five). She has also published three collections of her poems: Zero Degrees At First Light, Sheltering In Place, (2013) and most recently, Unforgetting. She's taught creative writing to high schoolers, junior high students, and senior citizens. Christine ran the online poetry workshop The Gazebo for many years. Her poems have appeared in magazines ranging from Rattle to The Anglican Theological Review--and once wrapped around a stick of Double Bubble in Gum Ball Poetry. She's been nominated for the Pushcart Prize a few times, and has had a poem commissioned for July 4th by ABC Radio News.

Christine is also a sometimes-singer (sounds like a 12-year-old boy soprano, sort of) and a dulcimer and guitar player who knows how to fake change ringing on a small carillon. She loves all music and always eagerly awaits the next Robyn Hitchcock record.