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Alicia Mireles Christoff is a Mexican American writer and Associate Professor of English at Amherst College. She is author of Novel Relations: Victorian Fiction and British Psychoanalysis, and her poems and essays have appeared in the Yale Review, Peach Mag, the Common, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, and elsewhere.
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