Christina Adams is the author of A Real Boy: A True Story of Autism, Early Intervention and Recovery (Berkley Books, May 2005) and a commentator for National Public Radio’s Day to Day. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, Brain Child Magazine, Alligator Juniper, Kaleidoscope and Appalachian Heritage, among others. She hosts a show on the Autism One internet radio network. Born in Washington, D.C., Adams moved at fourteen with her family to an Appalachian farm (see Back From the Land by Ellie Agnew, Ivan R. Dee 2004).

Christina won the 1999 CSULB Horn prize for best first novel chapter, and was nominated for the 2003 Mary Roberts Rinehart Award by NEA Fellow Stephen Cooper.  Her work was honored by the following magazines: New Letters, The Bellingham Review, New Millennium Writings, Brain Child Magazine, The Journal and Appalachian Heritage. Medical publications she has edited include “The Cornerstone Method: IQ Rise Found in Treated PDD children” with author and psychiatrist Dr. Gilbert Kliman.

Christina served as editor of The Pentagram (the newspaper of the Pentagon), and worked in communications and public relations for the federal government and aerospace and insurance industries. After she obtained a Master of Fine Arts (Creative Writing) degree in 2000, she won a fiction scholarship to the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. When her son was diagnosed with autism, she assembled and ran a comprehensive treatment program for him, which she details in her memoir A Real Boy.