Christina Baker Kline is a novelist, nonfiction writer and editor. In addition to Orphan Train, her novels include Bird in Hand, The Way Life Should Be, Desire Lines and Sweet Water.

She served as Writer-in Residence at Fordham University from 2007 to 2011 and was an on-staff editor and writing coach at the social networking site SheWrites.com.

Kline is currently at work on a literature anthology for Facing History & Ourselves and on a novel based on the iconic painting Christina’s World by Andrew Wyeth.

Kline was born in Cambridge, England. She is a graduate of Yale, Cambridge and the University of Virginia where she was a Henry Hoyns Fellow in Fictional Writing.

In addition to Fordham, she has taught fiction and nonfiction writing, poetry, English literature, literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, New York University, and Drew University. She is a recent recipient of a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, a writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and a Fordham Faculty Research Grant. She donates her time and editing skills to a number of organizations in New Jersey and Maine, including Volunteer Lawyers for Justice

www.volunteerlawyer-snj.org and jstart.org .