Christine Ma-Kellams

When she isn't writing, Christine Ma-Kellams teaches at San Jose State University. Her debut novel is forthcoming from Atria, and her short stories have appeared in 28 different literary magazines, including ZYZZYVA, the Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, Catapult, Saturday Evening Press, the Rupture/the Collagist, Southern Humanities Review, Baltimore Review, and Necessary Fiction, among others. Her nonfiction has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Salon, HuffPost, Chicago Tribune, and elsewhere. As a classically trained social psychologist who has also taught at Harvard, UC Santa Barbara, Westmont, and University of La Verne, and whose empirical work deals with understanding the psychological motives behind individual's behaviors, Ma-Kellams is uniquely able to pair the art of fiction with the science of what makes people tick.