About

“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal… it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendours.” - C.S. Lewis

The world is full of mystery. And beauty. Hidden in cracks. Spilling from dark, dusty corners. Sometimes ablaze in all its glory. I am looking for it. I am trying to seek the poetry of life. I find Truth in beauty and meaning in creation. And so, through words, aloud and on paper, I seek to reveal the joy of the Maker by being and creating this beauty for others to see.

I am a lifelong Canadian. A paper-loving Vancouverite. A polaroid junkie. A letter-writer. A typewriter owner. A wife and mother. And a java-sipping adventurer.

I live with my husband Michael and daughter Madeleine in Greater Vancouver, British Columbia where we attend St. Alban’s Anglican Church.

I write regularly for Comment magazine and other print and web periodicals, run The Word Studio and contribute to Art-BC.com, Sweetmama and the Cardus After Hours blog.

You’ll notice I write poetry. It’s sort of an unusual thing but I lay prose on the page to understand the past and cast hope into the future. Sometimes poems come in a flourish but most of the time I write line by line, as my vocation as mother allows. Words scrawled on napkins. Post-its. Scraps of paper. At the end of the day I paste them into my journal and, bit by bit, poems find their way into the world and then out into this blog for you to share.

I’d love to hear from you: christina[at]thewordstudio.ca.

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For more, check out Comment Magazine’s profile on me.