Christina Lynch is a novelist, television writer, journalist, book coach, and writing instructor.
A former Milan correspondent for W and Women's Wear Daily, she has written on staff for television shows such as The Dead Zone, Encore! Encore!, Unhappily Ever After and Wildfire.
A devoted educator, she teaches television writing for UCLA Extension, and does online book coaching both privately and for Antioch University LA. She is a full-time tenure track Professor of English at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, where she is also the faculty advisor for the literary magazine. Christina is a passionate advocate for higher pay and better working conditions for all adjunct instructors.
She is one half of the duo that writes as Magnus Flyte. The first Magnus novel, City of Dark Magic, was a New York Times bestseller. Please visit www.magnusflyte.com or www.Facebook.com/MagnusFlyte for more details, or buy the books from Powell's or Amazon or even better, from a bookstore near you!
Christina was honored to have a short story included in the anthology Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History. You can buy it here. She was also honored to have her story "Scarlet, CA" included in the Sherlock Holmes issue of NonBinary Review. You can buy that here, and also her story "Chapter VIII and a Half" in the Alice in Wonderland issue. The Wall Street Journal published her humorous essay about a family trip to Prague here.
She has a novel coming out in 2018 from St. Martin's Press, The Italian Party. It's set in Italy in 1956, and is available for pre-order on Amazon now, or from IndieBound. You can find it on Goodreads, too. And don't forget to check out the Pinterest page she created for the story. Yes, Italy is highly photogenic!