Christine Wolf

Christine Wolf is an award-winning essayist and a former weekly columnist for The Chicago Tribune, The Chicago Sun-Times, and Patch. Wolf interviewed then-President Barack Obama in 2012 during the first-ever live Google Hangout from the White House.

In 2014, Wolf launched her first dedicated writing space for women near Chicago. Five years later, she founded literary agency Writers' Haven LLC, where she now serves as a writing coach, literary agent, speaker, and facilitator of bespoke Write To Heal programs and retreats. In 2022, she launched her free newsletter on Substack, "Writers’ Haven by Christine Wolf."

A performing member with Short Story Theatre, Oil Lamp Theater, and Writers' Theatre, Wolf has also appeared on the stages of Mortified Chicago, Louder Than A Mom, and The Moth — where she was named StorySLAM champion in June 2022.

Wolf's work has been featured on CNN, HuffPost Live, as well as in Runner’s World, ChicagoNow, Better Humans, Invisible Illness, and other outlets — always exploring topics of emotional depth.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Media at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Arts in Teaching from National-Louis University.

Wolf's first book, co-written with Jay Pridmore, is a political biography about two former members of the United States Congress, titled "Politics, Partnerships, & Power: The Lives of Ralph E. and Marguerite Stitt Church" (Master Wings Publishing, December 19, 2023). For nearly 25 years, Wolf has lived in the U.S. Congressional District formerly represented by her subjects.

She's currently at work on a memoir.