Christine E. Laine

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Christine E. Laine (b. November 30, 1968 in El Paso, Texas) is an American contemporary, minimalist poet who lives in Virginia.

Laine is a two-time Pushcart Prize Nominee (2004 and 2005). She has written three full-length volumes of poetry: Allegory, The Weight Of Dust, and Postcards From A Summer Girl and three chapbooks (Suburban Fairy Tales of Brilliant Ash and Blue Sins, with Michael Paul Ladanyi; Alice in Wonderland; Origami Flower). She is the editor of Little Poem Press, VLQ (Verse Libre Quarterly) and co-editor of Erosha. Her work has appeared in several anthologies and countless publications, both in print and online. She released her first spoken word CD, Conversations in a Basement, in September 2005.

April of 2006 marked the release of the hurricane relief anthology Washing the Color of Water Golden, (ISBN 1-933242-23-X) which she edited, which included poetry by Michelle Close Mills, Joel M. Nelson, and Helen Losse.