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

Early life and education

Lehner was born in 1952 in

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. She attended the

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at the

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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

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, where she graduated in 1977 with a M.A. in creative writing in 1977.

Literary career

Lehner published her first novel, ''Expecting'' (), in 1982. She published her second work, ''What to Wear to See the Pope '' (), over twenty years later in 2004. Her most recent work, ''Absent a Miracle'' (), was released in 2009. In 2010, Lehner was selected as a member of the first class of

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's Fellows of the Writing Center.

Personal life

Lehner married fellow

and

alumni Jeffrey Richardson Hewitt in 1976. The couple had two children, Reine and Tristram, before divorcing in 2001. She currently resides in

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. 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.

References

External links

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Let it Bee Apiaries
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