Cristina Nehring is an award-winning essayist, scholar, travel writer and memoirist known for her 
spirited and contrarian reflections on issues as diverse as dating and drinking, Shakespeare, love poetry and intellectual snobs.
Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Atlantic, Harper’s, Slate, The London Times, Condé Nast Traveler, The American Scholar, Los Angeles Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, New Republic and New York Magazine. She has pursued graduate studies at Stanford and the Sorbonne, and holds a literature Ph.D. from UCLA.
In 2009, Cristina published A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century (HarperCollins), which received glowing praise on the front cover of The New York Times Book Review.
Her memoir of raising a disabled daughter as a single mother, The Child Who Never Spoke: 23 1/2 Lessons in Fragility, was first published in French and was released by Heliotrope Books in the US in English in October 2023.