Davis, Christine Salkin: - Christine Salkin Davis is a writer, poet, and artist living in Concord, NC. An Emeritus Professor of Communication Studies at UNC-Charlotte, Davis' poetry explores her experiences with death and dying, spirituality, social justice, and compassionate living. She was awarded her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. She is author and co-author of the narratives End of Life Communication: Stories from the Dead Zone (with J. L. Crane, 2019, Routledge), Talking through Death: Communicating about Death in Interpersonal, Mediated, and Cultural Contexts (with D. C. Breede, 2018, Routledge), Communicating Hope: An Ethnography of a Children's Mental Health Care Team (2014, Routledge), and Death: The Beginning of a Relationship (2010, Hampton Press), as well as six other books related to research methods and narrative pedagogy. Her poetry has been published in Moonstone Arts Center's Neruda Anthology (2023, "My Dream"), Kakalak (2023, "Elegy for America"), The Autoethnographer (2023, "After the School Shooting, in a Death Denying World"), and Stardust Review (2023, "La Luna es Vida"), among other publications. Her poetry collection, Life and Death and Holy in Every Breath, was published by Wild Rising Press in 2024. She is a participant in the Charlotte Center for Literary Arts' Author's Lab, where she is writing her memoir about her experience as a Fulbright Scholar living in Ireland and searching for her ancestors.