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Author Description Christina Thompson writes about the history of the Pacific. Her first book, <i>Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All</i>, was at once a history contact in Aotearoa/New Zealand and a memoir of her marriage to a Maori man. Her second book, <i>Sea People</i>, is a history of the settlement of remote Oceania by the ancestors of the Polynesian people. It won the 2020 Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award, the 2020 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, and the 2019 NSW Premier’s General History Award, and was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award (US), the Mountbatten Maritime Award (UK), the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award, (US) and the Queensland Literary Award (AUS). A dual citizen of the US and Australia, she is the editor of <i>Harvard Review</i> and teaches writing and editing at Harvard University Extension. <br /><br /><i>Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/44217-master-list-of-author-disambiguation-by-spaces" rel="nofollow noopener">See this thread for more information.</a></i>

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