"I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so."
- from "Keaton" by Elizabeth Bishop

Christina Montilla is a writer, editor, and educator from Mountlake Terrace, Washington. She has taught classes in various genre in Washington, Oklahoma, and Iowa. She is the prose editor at Tulipwood Books.

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A broken family becomes a child's plastic ponies. An incident of terror shelled in the pit of a plum. A heartbroken woman is transformed into wallpaper. The truth of the object is how we often mistake people as objects. How can objects teach us to treat people as people again? Her creative nonfiction and poetry have been published in print and online, most recently with Midnight Chem and Moss. 

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She received her B.A. in Anthropology and English/Creative Nonfiction from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa.