About
Christine’s award-winning novel, Swarm Theory, was called a “a gripping work of Midwest gothic.” Her latest novel, a fictional reimagining of the Flint water crisis, is forthcoming. Her short stories, essays, and interviews have appeared in Allium, Make Literary Magazine, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Millions, Roanoke Review, The Literary Review, among others. Christine founded Hypertext Magazine and is an Assistant Professor of English at Valparaiso University.
Featured Work
Swarm Theory
“Christine Rice’s Swarm Theory casts a brilliant light on the loneliness and loves of New Canaan, Michigan, a town she’s thoroughly imagined and rebuilt in this inspired novel-in-stories. With the greatest empathy and insight, Rice has created a cast of memorable characters—visionaries, losers, rebels, and thieves—their lives both mythic and mundane. In the tradition of Carson McCullers and Sherwood Anderson, Rice has given us the small town as universe.”
—René Steinke, author of Friendswood, Holy Skirts, and The Fires
