“These are poems for our times, necessary and abundant of the fervent call to freedom [....] this collection provides the energy, the timbre of our voice and the leap into the spirit waves.”
- Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate Emeritus, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner; author of Half the World in Light and Everyday We Get More Illegal
"An extraordinary collection that celebrates the human spirit under tragedy and hope."
- Marjorie Agosín, Peabody Award Winner; author of Tapestries of Hope, Threads of Love: The Arpillera Movement in Chile and I Lived on Butterfly Hill
“Christina Lux’s poems bring a ray of light to the forefront of war, that time “when soil is blood & blood is soil.” Her poems bring radical hope in the middle of major-scale conflicts around the world and also the social wars at home, the battles against racism, the losses of COVID-19, and even amidst the struggle she finds the calm of creation, the shelter of poetry...”
- Martín Camps, author of Petition to NASA to Include a Poet on Its Next Mission to Space and Other Poems
“Thoughtfully delightful and provocative, each poem draws you in.”
- Omofolabo AjayiSoyinka, Professor Emerita of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies and Theatre at the University of Kansas, choreographer, and author of Yoruba Dance
You can find my research in the International Journal of Francophone Studies and the Journal of Transnational American Studies. My war poems appear in several anthologies and journals and my book of poetry, War Bonds, was published in the spring of 2024.
Our article in BioScience shows how poetry can enhance environmental science; this article won an Honorable Mention from the Ecological Society of America's Education Section. My poetry on Halley's Comet and binary stars can be found in Consilience. My poem "cosmic claps" was published in Feminist Formations. My multi-media series of 8 poems on waves is published on Foundry.
My work on multilingual writing spans multiple continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas) and languages. My own creative writing is also multilingual. I'm interested in national language policies as well.
My poetry has been featured in Feminist Formations, Women's Studies Quarterly, Salome Magazine, and in textbooks from Oxford University Press. My research on war writing also focuses on gender.
My co-edited book, Medical Humanities, Cultural Humility, and Social Justice, was published in 2023. My pandemic poems can be found in the Merced County Times and my poems on breast cancer screening have appeared on National Public Radio and in a textbook from Oxford UP.
My research on war writing explores how people use environmental writing to process war trauma. My poetry on Hurricane Harvey is featured in The Houston Chronicle and my poetry on Typhoon Haiyan is in Feminist Formations. I am working on a current book project in this area.