Christina Yu, '08

Christina is a fiction writer from Niskayuna, New York, a pleasant upstate
suburb with a strong Native American tradition. At Dartmouth, she edited the
The Dartmouth Contemporary (literary journal); wrote, directed, and starred in Chinese American plays and culture nights (including "RAW" by Diana Son and "Tea" by Velina Houston); was a member of Alpha Xi Delta sorority, the Order of Omega Greek Honor Society, and Prison Project (for which she taught a creative writing class for inmates); and participated in the 2002 Beijing Foreign Study program. Her junior year, she was named the 2005 Class Scholar, inducted into Phi Beta Kappa early, and awarded a grant which allowed her to spend the summer in Paris. In a characteristic streak of ambition, she completed two theses her senior year: a book-length analysis of poetic ekphrasis in medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, and modern texts and a coming-of-age novel for which she was awarded High Honors in her major and the most prestigious literary prize at Dartmouth, the Edward Perkins prize. That year, she graduated summa cum laude and was named a finalist for the Rhodes scholarship. She currently attends the MFA program on a University Fellowship and spent her 2007 summer on a Nicholas Sparks Internship at a publishing house in NYC. Recently, she placed 2nd in the Ramble Underground Short Fiction Contest and served as dramaturg in the Notre Dame production of The Threepenny Opera. Her fiction and non-fiction appears in Gargoyle Magazine and College Magazine, among others.

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Creative Writing Program

English Department

University of Notre Dame

356 O'Shaughnessy Hall

Notre Dame IN 46556

Education: Dartmouth, A.B., 2005

Area of writing: Fiction

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