Christine A. Baker is an award-winning author and screenwriter whose work explores the quiet, transformative bond between humans and animals. Her forthcoming novel, Raising Artemis, is a luminous work of contemporary fiction with elements of magical realism, following a physician who, after profound loss, discovers her true calling through the animals who guide her home. She is also the author of Why She Plays: The World of Women’s Basketball and a Sundance Screenwriters Institute Top 10 Finalist. Christine lives along the Connecticut shoreline, where she writes, tends her garden, and shares her life with the animals who inspire her work.