Christina Thompson is the editor of Harvard Review and the author of Come On Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, which was shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Nonfiction and the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing.
Her recent book Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia is her second book. A recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Australia Council, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Award in 2016.
A dual citizen of the US and Australia, she lives outside of Boston.