Arkansas native, Christi Shannon Kline is a New York-based American poet, playwright, and performer and member of Actors’ Equity Association and The Dramatists Guild.

Christi has had the good fortune to study by invitation with renowned poet and translator, Marie Ponsot. Christi’s poetry first premiered as part of a political ballet, SLIPPERY PEOPLE, which she was commissioned to write for a dance company in residence at the prestigious Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.

Her play, REUNION, a full length drama in the Southern Gothic Style about an adopted woman who searches for her identity, was presented at the National Conference on Adoption in Manhattan, and at The Drilling Company Theater.