Alix Christie grew up in California, Montana and British Columbia. She is a prize-winning journalist and author of novels, reportage and stories. Her debut novel, “Gutenberg’s Apprentice,” was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Prize. Her story “Everychild” won the 2021 Jeffrey E. Smith Editor’s Prize in fiction from The Missouri Review. As a longtime foreign correspondent based in England, France and Germany, she has written numerous articles and stories set in other places and times, including “The Dacha,” a finalist for the 2016 Sunday Times (UK) Short Story Award. She currently lives in her native California, where she covers culture for The Economist, prints on a letterpress and swims in San Francisco Bay.