Christina Hutchins has worked as a biochemist and a Congregational (UCC) minister, and she holds degrees from University of California at Davis, Harvard University, and Graduate Theological Union. She currently teaches poetry and philosophy (especially the work of Alfred North Whitehead and of Judith Butler) at Berkeley's Pacific School of Religion and elsewhere. Robert Hass, the former Poet Laureate of the United States,has called Christina a "vivid and intellegent poet." She lives in Albany, CA, where she was recently appointed the city's first Poet Laureate.

Collecting Light (chapbook) (Acacia Books, 1999)

What I Want from You: Voices of Eastbay Lesbian Poets (Raw Art Press, 2006), The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets (Chatoyant, 2005), Crazy Woman Creek: Women Rewrite the American West (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), Woman Prayers (Harper, 2003), God, Literature and Process Thought (Ashgate, 2002), Stories From Where We Live: The Pacific Coast (Milkweed Editions, 2001)

, 88: A Journal of Contemporary American Poetry, Alligator Juniper, American Tanka, Americas Review, Antioch Review, Bay Windows, Beloit Poetry Journal, Berkeley Poetry Review, Calyx, Chiron Review, Comstock Review, Cream City Review, Denver Quarterly, Fireweed, Frontiers, Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review, Iris, Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Margin, Missouri Review, Nimrod, North American Review, Paterson Literary Review, Petroglyph, Portland Review, Prairie Schooner, Roanoke Review, Sacred Journey, Salmagundi, Southern Indiana Review, Southern Poetry Review, Southern Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Squaw Review, Sycamore Review, Talking River Review, Tampa Review, The New Republic, Thema, Witness, Women's Review of Books