Christine Grillo

Christine Grillo is a Baltimore-based novelist and science writer. Her debut novel, Hestia Strikes a Match (Farrar Straus Giroux, 2023), was included in NPR’s Books We Love 2023, and was shortlisted for the Crooks Corner Book Prize. Her short fiction has appeared in The New England Review, StoryQuarterly, The Southern Review, and other journals. Her nonfiction covers science, public health, food systems, agriculture, and climate change, and has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic: CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe, and Real Simple.