Christine Rene Smith is a coach, poet, and performance artist whose work bridges the creative, the spiritual, and the transformational. She completed a Master’s degree in 2015 with a thesis titled The Spirit Cabinet, a poetic and ritualistic exploration of identity, queerness, and ancestral connection through the lens of Federico García Lorca and Salvador Dalí’s relationship. The project incorporated sound poetry, homophonic and associative translation, erasure, and symbolic séance, blending personal narrative with literary and spiritual inquiry while drawing inspiration from writers and thinkers like Gertrude Stein, Harryette Mullen, Rachel Zolf, Erin Moure, and James Merrill. Christine’s work traced themes of circular time, sensuality, shame, ritual, and the longing for kinship across history. Her current writing project incorporates figs, wasps, and the writings of Robin Wall Kimmerer, Mike Shanahan, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. 

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With a desire to bring new voices into the published world Christine and a few other writers started a micro-press called Razorgirl Press in 2015 and published 7 books. She and her colleagues helped new authors foster sustaining community as they facilitated workshops where authors edited for each other on a parallel structured timeline, empowering them to complete a publishable book-length project within a year, and walking away with editing pals for life.

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Empathy and deep connection has been a guiding force in Christine’s career, first through her work as an editor, a caregiver, and later as a coach. Through continuous education, extensive experience being coached in her own life—and using art as a tool to unspool and integrate her own reality—Christine has learned how to ask resonant, intuitive questions that guide others inward. Her approach helps clients mine their own depths and connect with their truest selves.