Christy Zink

Christy Zink is an assistant professor of writing at The George Washington University. She is a two-time recipient of a Literature Grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and has twice been awarded fellowships from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from George Mason University and a BA from Emory University in English with an emphasis in writing. She is a former visiting scholar with the Centre for Sexuality, Race, and Gender Justice at the University of Kent in Canterbury, UK. As an experienced educational administrator, she has served as the director of the GW University Writing Center and the Deputy Director of the Writing in the Disciplines program at GW, and as the former director of the Writers in Sch0ols project for the PEN/Faulkner Foundation.

Her research work focuses on the intersections of women's real-life experiences and medical research, with particular attention to reproductive justice and women's health in America. Her current work in progress, Ghost in the Family, meets memoir with medical, historical, literary, and artistic archive in a series of interconnected essays that challenge prevailing cultural notions of abortion and mothering in opposition. Scholarly writing and conferences at major national and international conferences have focused on her additional research interests in critical pedagogy and creative leadership, particularly in multimodal writing, interdisciplinary curriculum development, and the interdependencies of critical and creative writing and teaching. Her writing work has appeared in such publications as American Literary Review, The Gettysburg Review, So to Speak: A Feminist Journal of Language and Art, Spoon River Poetry Review, and The Washington Post, as well as in the anthologies Writers Among Us and Electric Grace.

Through the GW writing program, she has taught courses focusing on a wide range of topics, including the medical humanities, documentary film, artists and urban life, and an upper-level pedagogy training course for writing consultants.