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Alix Christie is the author of Gutenberg’s Apprentice, a historical novel published in 2014 that was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Prize and the VCA-Cabell First Novel Award. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for the 2016 Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award and the Novella Award, and won the 2011 McGinnis-Ritchie award from the Southwest Review. She is currently a Literary Arts Fellow at the Montalvo Arts Center in California. A dual citizen of the United States and Canada, Christie earned a Masters of Fine Arts in fiction from St. Mary’s College of California. A longtime foreign correspondent, she has reported from Europe for the Guardian, San Francisco Chronicle, Salon.com, Washington Post and many other publications. She lives in London, where she is at work on a second novel and reviews books and arts for The Economist.