Christine Imperial is a poet and writer based in Oakland, California. She is currently a PhD student in cultural studies at UC Davis, where she was the recipient of a Deans’ Distinguished Graduate Fellowship. Her debut book, Mistaken for an Empire: A Memoir in Tongues (Mad Creek Books, 2023), was awarded the 2021 Gournay Prize. She holds an MFA from CalArts, where she was a 2020–21 REEF Fellow. Her work has been published in Poets & Writers, Inverted Syntax, TLDTD, and Poetry, among others.
Literary Curiosities
Spring 2024
from “The Picture Pines”
AUTHOR’S NOTE The following is an excerpt from an ongoing project titled “The Picture Pines.” The text inhabits and effaces American colonial official and photographer Dean C. Worcester’s 1914 survey […]