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Christl Rikka Perkins is a bi-racial (Black/Japanese) writer and teacher currently living in Oakland, CA. She lived in China for eight years, where she was an English teacher at the Central South University in Changsha, the North Central University of Technology and the Chinese People's Public Security University in Beijing. She also was a freelance writer for English language publications such as Beijing Scene.
When Christl returned to the U.S., she earned her Single-Subject Teaching Credential in History/Social Science and Multi-Subject Credential in order to teach Special Education. She taught for 13 years at the Exceptional Children's Foundation's Kayne Eras Center. In 2016, Christl moved to Oakland CA and began teaching at The Academy-SF @ McAteer High School and continues to teach English and Math in the Special Education Department. In her high school English class, Christl has taught poetry, humor and satire, elements of story and literary analysis to her high school students. Christl is a Bay Area Writing Project (BAWP) teaching consultant.
Christl was published in American Fiction 17, Half and One (online), and God's Cruel Joke Literary Journal. She has been a longtime member and active participant in WriteNow!-SF Writers Workshop and was published in their anthology, Essential Truths: The Bay Area in Color.
Christl was a 2018 and 2023 participant in Voices of Our Nation Arts (VONA-Voices). She was an inaugural member of the Writers Grotto-SF's Rooted & Written. She is a member of the Authors Guild, AWP, and Writers Grotto-SF.
Christl earned her BA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and her MA in Government & Politics from University of Maryland, College Park. She earned her Certificate in Fiction from UCLA Extension's Writers Program and her MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, Los Angeles.