Christine Rice is the author of Swarm Theory (University of Hell Press/March 2016). Most recently, her stories have been published in Farleigh Dickinson University’s The Literary Review, Roanoke College's Roanoke Review, American University of Beirut’s Rusted Radishes, and online at Bird’s Thumb, and Chicago Literati. Her writing has appeared in The Millions, The Big Smoke, Chicago Tribune, Detroit’s Metro Times and Metro Parent, The Good Men Project, The Urbaness.com, CellStories.net, F Magazine, and her radio essays have been produced by WBEZ Chicago. Christine is the managing editor of Hypertext Magazine (www.hypertextmag.com) and the director of Hypertext Studio Writing Center (www.hypertextstudio.org). She has taught at Columbia College Chicago since 1992. Christine was recently awarded the 2015 the Ragdale Rubin Fellowship.