Christine S. O’Brien earned a BA in English at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds a double MFA in nonfiction and fiction from Saint Mary’s College, where she was awarded Saint Mary’s Agnes Butler Scholarship for Literary Excellence. Her essays and short stories have appeared in Seneca Review and Slush Pile Magazine, and her work received an honorable mention in Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. O’Brien has worked for ABC-TV, Alex Ponti, and NBC Productions. She is currently a part-time lecturer in the English Composition Department at Saint Mary’s College and lives in Walnut Creek, California, with her husband and two children. Crave is her first book. You can sign up for email updates here.