About

Christine Stewart, who writes as Christine Stewart-Nuñez, is a permanent resident of Canada living on Treaty One in Winnipeg. She is the author of a memoir, Silence & Seizure: Parenting Through Complexity (Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2026) and a book of lyric essays, Chrysopoeia: Essays of Language, Love, and Place (Stephen F. Austin State University Press 2022). She’s also the author of five books of poetry, most recently The Poet & The Architect (Terrapin Books 2021). Christine also contributed two chapters to Creatively Expanding the Premodern: Historical and Literary Afterlives, one based on the life of Catherine of Siena and another based on the life of Katherine of Aragon. This collection, co-written with Julia Griffin, Carole Levin, and Marguerite A. Tassi, was published by Routledge in 2025.

Christine served as South Dakota poet laureate in from 2019-2021 before moving with her family to Winnipeg in August 2021.