Christine Walde has been published in a variety of Canadian journals and publications for both her fiction and non-fiction, including Descant, The New Quarterly, Quill and Quire and The Globe and Mail. Her critically acclaimed first novel, The Candy Darlings, was published by Houghton Mifflin (2006) and Penguin Canada (2007). She was most recently shortlisted for the Descant/Winston Collins Prize for Best Canadian Poem for “Rock Lake at Night III.”