Christine Ma-Kellams

Christine Ma-Kellams is a Harvard-trained cultural psychologist, Pushcart-nominated fiction writer, and first-generation American. When not writing, she is an associate professor of psychology at San Jose State University, program coordinator for its Masters in Experimental Psychology program, and a regular contributor to Psychology Today. Her essays and short stories have appeared in HuffPost, Chicago Tribune, Business Insider, Salon, The Wall Street Journal, the Rumpus, Catapult, Electric Literature, ZYZZYVA, Kenyon Review, Matador and many more publications. Her empirical work in psychology has been featured in the BBC, Boston Globe, Elle, GQ, Esquire, and elsewhere. The Band (Atria) is her first novel and Cultural Psychology (Bloomsbury) is her textbook. You can find her in person at one of California’s coastal cities or online at ChristineMa-Kellams.com.