Staff

Christine Walde,
Member of Poetry Board

Christine WaldeChristine Walde is a poet and librarian. She has been published in a variety of print and online journals in both Canada and the US, including Branch, Carousel, The Fiddlehead, Lemonhound, The Malahat Review, The Rusty Toque, Plath Profiles and Vallum. In 2011, Baseline Press published The Black Car, a chapbook based on her research with Sylvia Plath's archives at Smith College and Indiana University, which also resulted in the recent completion of a full-length poetry manuscript, Cloud Country, exploring Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' camping trip to Canada in 1959. She is also the author of two books for teens: The Candy Darlings (2008) and Burning from the Inside (2013). She moved permanently to Victoria in 2012 and works at the University of Victoria Libraries.