Christine Hemp has aired her poetry and essays on NPR’s Morning Edition; a poem of hers traveled over 1.7 billion miles on a NASA mission; and her poetry program Connecting Chord has united youth offenders and police officers in the U.K. and U.S. She has written, hosted, and produced a local public radio program “The Institute of Higher Yearning,” braiding poetry, music, science, and art. She is the author of That Fall. She lives with her husband and two horses in Port Townsend, Washington.