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About me, christina kann

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• co-owner and communications director for Wildling Press
• owner of Deus Ex Media podcast network
• host of The Restricted Section podcast
• based in Richmond, Virginia
• English linguistics degree from Old Dominion University
• sci-fi & fantasy fanatic
• proud cat mom
• great +1 at any wedding

I've always loved to write. The first book I "wrote" was my retelling of my favorite childhood movie, Disney's Pocahontas. (My thoughts on that film have developed considerably since then.) In middle school, I produced a terrible magazine I dubbed The Average Seventh-Grade Girl, which led to me being drafted to write for the school newspaper, The Medallion. I dabbled with angst-inspired poetry and short stories in high school. I was sixteen when I wrote my first book, Wishes on Airplanes. It was essentially the tale of an overly-romanticized teen pregnancy that has no business being read by any teen anywhere in the world. But you always remember your first.

In college, I started blogging with little direction or motivation. This was also when the real world of reading was first in my grasp. In those transformative years in college, I began to become my true self and explore things I was truly passionate about. I immersed myself in science fiction, obsessed with the parallels I was able to connect to the world around me. I worked summers as a lifeguard, which gave me the chance to read and write for 50+ hours weekly. (Rest assured these pools were often empty.) After reading two of the most influential books of my life, Divergent by Veronica Roth and The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman (two admittedly very different books), I drafted my first "real" novel, The Last Ginger.

It was then I realized that I could actually write. I liked it, I had the temperament, and I was good at it. I queried The Last Ginger, and though I had fully missed the dystopia wave by the time I had a polished final draft, it was a good exercise in persistence and rejection. I am still endlessly proud of that book.

Now, I live in Richmond, Virginia, with my husband, Sean, and our many cats (see photos). I have the privilege of directing marketing and working as a project manager and editor at Wildling Press, a company I founded with some of my best friends.