Christine Lowther resides in ƛaʔuukwiiʔath (Tla-o-qui-aht) ha’huulthii in Nuučaańuł (Nuu-Chah-Nulth) territory on Vancouver Island’s west coast. She is the editor of Worth More Standing: Poets and Activists Pay Homage to Trees and its youth companion volume, Worth More Growing. She is the author of four poetry collections, most recently Hazard, Home. In 2014 the Pacific Rim Arts Society presented Christine with their inaugural Rainy Coast Award for Significant Accomplishment. Her memoir Born Out of This was shortlisted for the 2015 Roderick Haig-Brown Regional Prize. She won the Federation of British Columbia Writers’ 2015 Nonfiction Prize and was shortlisted for the 2023 CBC Nonfiction Prize. Christine served as Tofino’s Poet Laureate 2020–2022.
