Christina Olson

Christina Olson is the author of the full-length collections The Anxiety Workbook, Terminal Human Velocity, and Before I Came Home Naked as well as the chapbooks Weird Science and Rook & The M.E. Her chapbook The Last Mastodon won the 2019 Rattle Chapbook Prize.

Her poetry & creative nonfiction has appeared in more than a hundred magazines & journals, including The Atlantic, Brevity, DIAGRAM, Gastronomica, The Nation, The Normal School, Poetry Daily, Scientific American, Verse Daily, Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Best Creative Nonfiction, Volume Three. She tweets about mastodons, coney-style hot dogs, her three idiot rescue dogs, and other current fixations as @olsonquest.