Christine Lasek-White

Christine M. Lasek-White is the Internship and Career Coordinator for the Humanities serving the humanities programs in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, including the departments of English, Classics, Comparative Literature and Intercultural Studies, Germanic & Slavic Studies, History, Linguistics, Philosophy, Religion, and Romance Languages. 

Christine holds an MFA in fiction from the University of South Florida, where she served as the Managing Editor of Saw Palm: Florida Literature and Art. She currently teaches creative writing and a careers class in the University of Georgia Department of English.

The first 30 years of Christine's life were spent in southeast Michigan. She grew up in Troy and graduated from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2003. Prior to pursuing a degree in creative writing, she worked as a web editor and public relations official for companies in and around Detroit, including WXYZ-TV Channel 7 and Crain's Detroit Business.

Christine's first collection of short stories is Love Letters to Michigan (ELJ Publications 2016). Her fiction and nonfiction have appeared in several literary magazines, including Midwestern Gothic, The Sierra Nevada Review, and VIA: Voices in Italian Americana.