Virgin, Christine: - A former Charles Kuralt Fellow at Voice of America, Christine Virgin's story-telling background comes from various print and broadcast media. After unsuccessfully launching a niche magazine for teen girls and working for Discovery Communications, Christine began blogging about parenting at peeinpeace.com, and, more recently, about fiction writing and her new hobby of racecar driving at christinevirgin.com. She's been honing her craft as a writer for two decades, with The Beautiful List as her debut novel. She currently resides in the Washington D.C. area with her husband and their three children, as well as their dog Baxter and an aquarium of constantly rotating residents.