Christine Brooks is a midnight novelist, feral poet, and small wave ambassador living in the Pacific Northwest with her opinionated dog, Clancy, and his lovable little brother, Frankie Figs. She graduated from Western New England University with her B.A. in Literature and holds her M.F.A. in Creative Nonfiction from Bay Path University. Christine enjoys traveling to all parts of the world in search of the perfect beach, break, and hammock. Her debut book of poetry, The Cigar Box Poems, was released in February 2020. Her second, beyond the paneling, was released the following year. Her poems and essays have appeared in Door Is A Jar Magazine, HuffPost, The Seattle Times, Storgy Magazine, Inertia and Boston Accent Lit.