Christina Rivera

Christina Rivera is a Pushcart Prize-winning essayist, author, and environmental writer. Her debut book, MY OCEANS, is a sea-linked collection of essays that weaves immersive storytelling with embodied climate science and explores the oceanic kinship of bodies of water and beings. Christina’s essays have been published at Orion Magazine, Terrain, The Kenyon Review, River Teeth’s Beautiful Things, and her work has won the John Burroughs Nature Essay Award—the highest annual honor for a creative nonfiction essay on place, science, and the environment. MY OCEANS was longlisted for the Graywolf Prize, a finalist for the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature, and is forthcoming from Northwestern University Press!