Christine Bollow is a queer, disabled Filipina litizen who currently lives in Tucson. She’s co-owner of Loyalty Bookstores, a book consultant for multiple comic cons, and is the founder and director of Liwanag Filipino Lit Fest DC. Christine was a Fiction Juror for the 2024 Kirkus Prize and judged for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards for Bisexual Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. She is a recipient of the 2024 Duende-Word BIPOC Bookseller Leadership Award and a 2022 Publishers Weekly Star Watch Honoree. Christine graduated from Barnard College and can be found on Bookstagram @readingismagical.