Lit Crawl Sebastopol 2025

Christine Walker is a visual artist and author of the novel “Tap Dancing at the Bluebird.” Inspired by her paternal grandmother’s Depression-era diaries, Christine took truths of that resilient family, imagined an ambitious girl and the roving boy who set her life in motion, and wrote an uplifting story celebrating dance and second chances across a century of change in America. Christine has an MFA in Writing and Literature and MA in Interdisciplinary Creative Arts. Christine lives in Sonoma County with her husband, musician/composer Dennis Hysom, with whom she's co-authored "Wooleycat's Musical Theater," a children's book and songs. " She is also a strategic visioning consultant and the author of the memoir “A Painter’s Garden: Cultivating the Creative Life.”