Christine Lehner

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Christine Lehner (born 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer.[1]

Early life and education

Lehner was born in 1952 in Massachusetts.[2] She attended the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A. in literature in 1973.[3] While at UC Santa Barbara, she was a student of Marvin Mudrick.[4] She later attended Brown University, where she graduated in 1977 with a M.A. in creative writing in 1977.[3]

Literary career

Lehner published her first novel, Expecting (Template:ISBN), in 1982.[3] She published her second work, What to Wear to See the Pope (Template:ISBN), over twenty years later in 2004.[3] Her most recent work, Absent a Miracle (Template:ISBN), was released in 2009.[5]

In 2010, Lehner was selected as a member of the first class of State University of New York at Purchase's Fellows of the Writing Center.[1]

Personal life

Lehner married fellow College of Creative Studies and University of California, Santa Barbara alumni Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt in 1976.[6] The couple had two children, Reine and Tristram, before divorcing in 2001.[2][6] She currently resides in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.[7]

Lehner and Hewitt endowed the Brancart Fiction Prize and the Richardson Poetry Prize for the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara in honor of their grandmothers.[3][8]

Lehner has taken to bee keeping, founding Let it Bee Apiaries in 2004.[7][9]

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