Christine Lehner

Christine Lehner (born 1952) is an American novelist and short story writer.

Early life and education Lehner was born in 1952 in Massachusetts. She attended the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara and graduated with a B.A. in literature in 1973. While at UC Santa Barbara, she was a student of Marvin Mudrick. She later attended Brown University, where she graduated in 1977 with a M.A. in creative writing in 1977.

In 2010, Lehner was selected as a member of the first class of State University of New York at Purchase's Fellows of the Writing Center. The couple had two children, Reine and Tristram, before divorcing in 2001.

Lehner and Hewitt endowed the Brancart Fiction Prize and the Richardson Poetry Prize for the College of Creative Studies at UC Santa Barbara in honor of their grandmothers.

Lehner has taken to bee keeping, founding Let it Bee Apiaries in 2004.