About

Christine Butterworth-McDermott is a poet and fiction writer who was raised primarily in California but spent significant time in the Midwest.

She is the author of the poetry chapbooks Tales on Tales: Sestinas (2010) and all breathing heartbreak (2019) as well as the full-length collections Woods and Water, Wolves and Women (2012), Evelyn As: Poems (2019), and The Spellbook of Fruit and Flowers (2023).

Butterworth-McDermott was the founder and former head editor of Gingerbread House Literary Magazine, an online quarterly journal of magical poetry & prose that was active between June 2013-December 2022.

Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in Beliot Fiction Journal, Lunch Ticket, Southeast Review, and Uncharted/Voyage YA, among others.

She attended Purdue University’s graduate program, where she earned an advanced degree in Creative Writing and a doctorate in English. She has published several academic articles on the use of the fairytale in short stories and novels. 

A former teacher, Butterworth-McDermott now works as an editor and consultant. She currently lives in Texas with her husband, the novelist John A. McDermott.