Christie Cole

A poet since age 14, originally Christie went to school for stage acting and worked professionally beginning in her teens. She moved to the business side a decade ago. She presently works in production for ABC Studios and also dabbles in her own producing on the side, having completed three shorts to date, two with orange.fastball.studios and a horror film with Damian Lahey (HEROES OF ARVINE PLACE), as well as a music video, and written two spec pilots. McMETA and FOR ASHLEY were screened at Highway 61 Film Fest in 2014. SOCCER MOMS IN PERIL premiered at the 2015 Los Angeles Dances With Films Festival and has been seen in numerous fests across the world over the past year. Christie has two chapbooks of poetry in print; "apartment 8" & its companion "The House on the Boulevard" can both be purchased at www.finishinglinepress.com. Poetic influences include e.e. cummings, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, W.B. Yeats, and T.S. Eliot. Cubism, and the visual art of words on the page, play a large role in her poems. Christie has written web copy for sites such as Girls Guide to Manners, and she is on staff as a writer/editor for the active wear apparel line www.daughtersofculture.com! Christie studies the Spanish guitar, has an enthusiasm for motorsports and owns a Ducati, and practices Nichiren Buddhism. She has an undying passion for aerial arts and has been earnestly studying flying trapeze and hand-balancing. Photo credit: Alex Chu-Kung for Gaona's Trapeze Workshop