CHRISTINE PARDUE

I’m a fiction writer who grew up in rural north Georgia. I have lived in New York, Bulgaria, and now St. Louis, where I’m in the fiction MFA program at WashU.

I was a student in Tony Tulathimutte’s CRIT and am writing my first novel. 

Over the years I’ve held different roles in book publishing and public arts programming. I acquired and edited works of translated literature at Restless Books, including Bothayna Al-Essa’s The Book Censor’s Library, translated from Arabic by Ranya Abdelrahman and Sawad Hussain, which was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature in 2024. I was also the events manager at Rizzoli Bookstore for about four years.

I taught high school English in Gabrovo, Bulgaria for two years on a Fulbright grant. I’m an emeritus member of Bosilek, the oldest Bulgarian folkdance ensemble in North America, founded in a Soho loft in 1973.

I’m also an editor. Learn more about my editing services here.