Alix Christie
Alix Christie
Writer: Fiction
United States
Fall 2024
Contact Info
Website: alixchristie.com
Instagram: @alixechristie
Facebook: @AlixChristieWriter
BIOGRAPHY
Alix Christie is a prize-winning author and journalist and native Californian. Her new historical novel, The Shining Mountains, was published in April 2023. Her debut novel, Gutenberg’s Apprentice, the story of the making of the Gutenberg Bible, was published by Harper Books in 2014 and was a finalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Prize.
Her story “Everychild” won the 2021 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in fiction from The Missouri Review and a Pushcart Prize. As a longtime foreign correspondent, she has written numerous stories set in other places and times, including “The Dacha,” a finalist for the 2016 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award.
She earned an MFA at St. Mary’s College of California and has been a literary fellow at the Lucas Artists Program of Montalvo Arts Center and a fiction workshop leader at the Leopardi Writing Conference.
She is currently based in Berlin, where she is at work on a new novel, seeking a publisher for a family memoir and writing about culture for The Economist.
PROJECT
While at Nawat Fes, Alix Christie will finish work on her third historical novel, “Rubble Women,” which tells the story of German women thrown together to scrub the wreckage of World War II from Berlin’s streets.
This fictional project, like her previous novel, The Shining Mountains, is based on a littleknown true history that helps to illuminate the world in which we now live. During the residency, Alix plans to expand on this theme through short fictions looking at the ways such past traumas seep into present life.
She envisions a series of works about the intergenerational shadows of fascism and racism in the United States and Germany, her two home countries. As a French speaker formerly active as a journalist in Paris, she is particularly interested in learning more about the ways in which the colonial history of France in North Africa has affected, and continues to affect, those living in the region today.