Christine Grillo Book Launch: Hestia Strikes A Match

Join The Ivy in helping to launch Christine Grillo’s debut novel, Hestia Strikes a Match! Hestia Strikes a Match is the slyly funny story of a woman looking for love and friendship in the midst of a new American civil war. It’s an irreverent, incisive, laugh-out-loud interrogation of modern love of all kinds, in all its messy beauty. It asks the seemingly ever-relevant question: How do you embrace an entire life when the whole world is breaking into bits?

Christine Grillo is a writer and an editor whose short fiction has appeared in StoryQuarterly, The Southern Review, LIT, and more. Her nonfiction covers science, public health, food systems, agriculture, and climate change, and has been published in outlets such as The New York Times, The Atlantic: CityLab, Audubon, NextTribe and Real Simple. Grillo earned degrees at Columbia University and The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and she has been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Hestia Strikes a Match (Farrar Straus Giroux) is her debut novel.