Christine gelineau
Her newest book, ALMANAC: A MURMURATION, is a book of creative nonfiction, new from Excelsior Editions, trade imprint of SUNY Press.
Christine Gelineau is also the prize-winning author of three full-length books of poetry.
Almanac: A Murmuration
From the sanctuary of her one-hundred-and-twenty-acre horse farm in the upper Susquehanna River Valley, essayist and poet Christine Gelineau takes stock of what it means to care for a farm, a nation, a planet—a home—and of how the stories we tell impact our lives.
Bio
Christine Gelineau is the author of ALMANAC: A MURMURATION, a memoir /meditation that focuses on stories we tell to shape our lives at the personal, national, and global levels. More information in her guest blog post, or listen in on the episodes of the ALMANAC Podcast.
Gelineau is also the author of three full-length books of poetry: CRAVE from NYQ Books; the poetic sequence APPETITE FOR THE DIVINE, published as the Editor’s Choice for the Robert McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press and REMORSELESS LOYALTY, winner of the Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, also from Ashland Poetry Press.
A recipient of the Pushcart Prize, Gelineau’s poetry and essays have been widely published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, New Letters, The New York Times, Green Mountains Review, North American Review, and online in venues such as Verse Daily and Rattle. Three of her essays have been cited as Notable Essays in Best American Essays.
Gelineau teaches poetry and creative nonfiction in the Maslow Family Low-residency Graduate Program in Creative Writing at Wilkes University. Though now retired from that position, she served for many years as Associate Director of the Creative Writing Program at Binghamton University.
She and her husband live on a farm in the upper Susquehanna River valley.
REVIEWS of ALMANAC
Louisiana Literature 42/1 Spring 2025 review by Caroline LeBlanc (not available on line)
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