Christie's work has been published by Tin House, New Letters, Red Bird Chapbooks, and Figroot Press, among others, and has won several awards including the Dorothy Cappon Prize for the Essay and the Literal Latté Short Short Contest. Chosen as New Mexico Young Poet of the Year while growing up in Santa Fe, she now lives and writes by the ocean in Santa Cruz, California. She loves the play of light, the journeyings of time, things ephemeral and ancient.
Anna woke at 4:00, the numbers wide-eyed on the little travel clock, and after half an hour or so slept again. It was quiet by then, and the heat had broken—though not her own, not yet. She woke not knowing who she was, with the strange slatted light on the strange wall, one of…
