Life

Hume received her BA, MFA, and PhD from Penn State University, Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, and University of Denver

University of Denver

The University of Denver is currently ranked 82nd among all public and private "National Universities" by U.S. News & World Report in the 2012 rankings....

, respectively. She has taught at Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University

Illinois Wesleyan University is an independent undergraduate university located in Bloomington, Illinois. Founded in 1850, the central portion of the present campus was acquired in 1854 with the first building erected in 1856...

 and is currently an Associate Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University

Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Ypsilanti is west of Detroit and eight miles east of Ann Arbor. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School...

, where she also hosts an internet radio program called Poetry Radio.

Her writing and criticism have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Contemporary Literature, Rain Taxi, Chicago Review, and Womens Studies Quarterly.

Musca Domestica, Hume's first book of poetry, was published in 2000 by Beacon Press. Her second book, Alaskaphrenia, was published in 2004 by New Issues. Her most recent book, Shot, was published in 2010 by Counterpath Press.

Awards

• 1999 Barnard Women Poets Prize
  Barnard Women Poets Prize
  The Barnard Women Poets Prize is a major American literary award for a book of poetry in the English language.From 1986-1999 the prize was called the Barnard New Women Poets Prize...
  
  
• Green Rose Award
• 2005 Best Book of the Year Award, Small Press Traffic
• MacDowell Colony
  MacDowell Colony
  The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...
  
  residency

Works

• "LUNAR HALO", Typo 6
• "Lively Dub Yourself", 42 Opus, 2 September 2008
• "Noctilucent Elegy"; "Ward"; "Her Night Lamb", Cocoanut 7

• Lullaby, Ugly Duckling Presse, 2007 (a chapbook)

Reviews

Christine Hume’s first collection, Musca Domestica, presented a remarkably coherent set of motifs and themes that articulate a governing aesthetic. Her second book Alaskaphrenia offers readers another ambitious articulation of philosophical insight and rich meditation on human consciousness.

External links

• "Christine Hume", Here Comes Everybody, June 25, 2005