Christina Hoag
SANTA MONICA
CA United StatesContact: https://christinahoag.comPen Name(s): Christina Hoag
CA United StatesContact: https://christinahoag.comPen Name(s): Christina Hoag
I Am the Famous Carlos: The Story of the Jackal, the World's First Celebrity Terrorist, Law of the Jungle, Skin of Tattoos, Girl on the Brink, Peace in the Hood: Working with Gang Members to End the Violence
Noir, Thriller, True Crime, Young Adult
Mysterious Press Presents the Best Mystery Fiction of 2026, Malice Domestic Senior 2026, Vigilante Crime & Pulp, Black Beacon Third & Fourth Books of Mystery, Crimeucopia
Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Mystery Tribune, Black Cat Weekly, Shotgun Honey, Guilty Crime Story, Dark Yonder, All Due Respect, A Rock and a Hard Place, Saturday Evening Post.
Craft, Subject Expertise, The Business of Writing
I'm an experienced speaker on many aspects of writing fiction and nonfiction, including revising/editing, research, deciding between a novel or memoir, developing character, the writer's journey.
Christina Hoag is a former journalist for the Miami Herald and Associated Press and reported from fourteen countries around Latin America for Time, Business Week, New York Times, Financial Times, Sunday Times of London, Houston Chronicle and other news outlets. A graduate cum laude of Boston University, she won two prizes from the New Jersey Press Association in her newspaper career. Born in New Zealand, Christina grew up as an expat in seven countries, arriving in the United States as a teenager. She now lives in Los Angeles, where she has taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison and to at-risk teen girls.