Raising Artemis

Christine A. Baker is an award-winning writer whose work explores the quiet magic woven into everyday life — the resilience we discover in loss, and the extraordinary ways animals shape our journeys.

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She is the author of Why She Plays: The World of Women’s Basketball (University of Nebraska Press, 2018), a groundbreaking book that gave voice to female athletes and celebrated their passion for the game. Her work has earned recognition including the Wesleyan University Rulewater Prize and Mount Saint Mary College’s Distinguished Alumni Award, honoring her literary voice and broader cultural impact.

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As a screenwriter, Christine has received multiple honors, including selection as a Sundance Screenwriters Institute Top 10 Finalist. Her scripts — often centered on complex women navigating history and reinvention — have garnered festival selections and industry acclaim.

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With Raising Artemis, she turns toward her most personal work yet — blending grief, healing, and the enduring human–animal bond into a luminous story of purpose and awakening.

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Christine lives along the Connecticut shoreline, where she writes in the early morning light, tends her garden, and shares her life with the animals who have long shaped her work.

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As a lifelong animal lover, she believes the bonds we form with the creatures who walk beside us are neither accidental nor ordinary. They witness us across seasons of change — and leave an imprint that does not fade.

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Much of her writing grows from that understanding.