About the Author

Christina Lynch is a novelist, television writer, journalist, book coach, and writing instructor. She grew up mostly in Chicago, graduated from Harvard College, and has an MFA from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is a former Milan correspondent for W  and Women’s Wear Daily, and lived in Italy for 7 years, where she ate a lot of wonderful meals and  won the Tuscan Endurance Championship on her horse Camelia.

A devoted educator, she moved to LA where she has she has written on staff for television shows such as The Dead Zone, Encore! Encore!, Unhappily Ever After and Wildfire. She also teaches television writing for UCLA Extension, and does online book coaching both privately and for Antioch University LA. She is a full-time tenure track Professor of English at College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California, where she is also the faculty advisor for the literary magazine. Christina is a passionate advocate for higher pay and better working conditions for all adjunct instructors.

She is one half of the duo that writes as Magnus Flyte.  The first Magnus novel, City of Dark Magic, was a New York Times bestseller. Christina’s new novel, The Italian Party, takes us back to 1956 Italy, where a young American couple are seduced by the beauty of Siena, yet the secrets they are keeping from each other force them to confront a world more complicated than they’d ever imagined.