Christine Kitano is the author of the poetry collections Sky Country (BOA Editions, 2017) and Birds of Paradise (Lynx House, 2011), and co-author of the oral history collection Who You: The Issei (JCCH / University of Hawaii Press, 2018).

She teaches at Ithaca College and in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. Recent work is published in Portland Review and The Massachusetts Review.