Christine Sneed is a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at Indiana University and has published stories in Best American Short Stories, New England Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Review, Pleiades, Glimmer Train, Massachusetts Review, Meridian, Other Voices, Greensboro Review, River Styx, Phoebe, South Dakota Review, and many other journals.
Stories have recently appeared in or are forthcoming from Pleiades, "A Woman on a Corner"; The Southern Review, "Beach Vacation"; Notre Dame Review, "The Goddess Complex"; TriQuarterly Online, "The River"; The Literary Review, "Roger Weber Would Like to Stay"; Barrelhouse, "Ladylike"; Massachusetts Review, "Litany: Four Men"; and American Literary Review, "The Driver."
She has been awarded an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in poetry and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes, along with a 2010 Los Angeles Times book prize, first-fiction category, for her story collection, Portraits of a Few of the People I've Made Cry. She lives in Evanston, IL and teaches creative writing and literature courses at DePaul University in Chicago, and creative writing for the University of New Orleans' low-residency MFA program.