Christiane Buuck teaches composition, creative writing and business and professional writing. She earned an MFA from the University of Arizona and completed a creative writing Fulbright to France in which she walked and wrote about medieval pilgrimage routes.

Buuck's fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous literary publications including the Seneca Review, Cutthroat, Crab Orchard Review, Cimarron Review and The Sun. Her essay on Alopecia was a runner up in the spring 2015 Glamour magazine “Real Lives” essay contest and was published in the tablet edition. She co-authored a critical essay on the ways Shawn Tan uses the technique of masking in the backgrounds in his graphic novel The Arrival. She is currently finishing her first novel.

Her passion at Ohio State is to teach her students how to translate clear thoughts into precise, nuanced writing.

Selected Publications

• “Sanctuary.” Short story. The Sun 44. (January 2013): 40-46. Print.
• "France in 25 Exposures" - originally published in Seneca Review, republished in Redux.
• “Waiting for Moses.” Rock & Sling 7.2 (summer/fall 2012): 69-72.
• “Hot and Sweaty and the Things We Do for Love.” Crab Orchard Review 16.1 (Spring 2011): 155-160.
• "Looking beyond the Scenes: Spatial Storytelling Devices in Shaun Tan's The Arrival." Graphic Novels for Children and Young Adults: A Collection of Critical Essays, edited by Michelle Ann Abate and Gwen Athene Tarbox, University Press of Mississippi, 2017, pp. 154-170.