# Christina Baker Kline
*New York Times Bestselling Author, Teacher, Editor*

Christina Baker Kline is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of ten novels—"Orphan Train," "The Exiles," "A Piece of the World," "The Way Life Should Be," "Bird in Hand," "Desire Lines," "Sweet Water," "Orphan Train Girl" (middle-grade), "Please Don't Lie" (a thriller co-authored with Anne Burt), and the forthcoming "The Foursome" (5/26). She is the author or editor of five nonfiction books: "The Conversation Begins," "Child of Mine," "Room to Grow," "About Face," and "Always Too Soon." She is published in 40 countries.Her novels have received the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, the Inter-Allied Union Prize of the Cercle Interallie (Paris), and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, among other prizes, and have been chosen by hundreds of communities, universities, and schools as "One Book, One Read" selections. Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The San Francisco Chronicle. She has contributed to numerous anthologies, including "Stories from Suffragette City" and "Lolita in the Afterlife."Christina Baker Kline was born in England and raised in the American South and Maine. She is a graduate of Yale (B.A.), Cambridge (M.A.), and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.), where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow. She has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women's studies at Yale, NYU, UVA, Drew, and Fordham, where she served as Writer-in-Residence for four years. She was also a faculty mentor in the BookEnds intensive novel-writing program at Stony Brook University, and she taught writing workshops at all levels at the Kauai Writers Conference and for Foreword Retreats in Chamonix and Arcachon. She is a recipient of several Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowships and Writer-in-Residence Fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.Kline serves on the Board of Directors of the Authors Guild and Poets & Writers, her most significant professional commitments. She sits on the Advisory Boards of the Montclair Literary Festival, the Kaua'i Writers Conference, and Roots & Wings, and is a member of the Writers Council of the Center for Fiction. In addition, she serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association and is an Author-Ambassador for Room to Read, a global nonprofit that works to improve literacy and gender inequality.You can find more of her work on her website and Instagram.

**Connect:** [Website](https://christinabakerkline.com/) · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/bakerkline/)

## Retreats led by Christina Baker Kline

### Rejuvenate Your Writing Life - Fiction and Memoir Retreat with Author Christina Baker Kline in Scotland
June 11 - 18, 2027 · Buchlyvie, Scotland, UK · $4,850
Instructors: Christina Baker Kline
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