Christine Grillo is a writer and editor covering food systems, agriculture, and climate change, whose nonfiction has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic: CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe, and Real Simple. Her short fiction has appeared in Story Quarterly, The Southern Review, and LIT.

Hestia Strikes a Match (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2023) is her debut novel. It was included in NPR’s Books We Love 2023 and DCTrending’s Annual Holiday Booklist, and it was shortlisted for the Crooks Corner Book Prize.