Christine Borne

Christine Borne is a Cleveland-based writer, editor, and archivist offering a variety of high-quality, reasonably priced professional services.

Christine graduated from Cleveland State University in 2000. With a humanities degree and no prospects, she set off in a loaded Geo Metro for Missoula, Montana. After an unfulfilling few months rolling sushi at a natural foods store where everyone was much cooler than her, Christine decided to look for work where she felt happiest: in the library. A year later, she enrolled at the Kent State University School of Library and Information Science.

Since then, Christine has built up a considerable resume of interesting job experiences, which have taken her to New Jersey, New York, and back to Cleveland, where she now lives with her husband James Nickras, author of the Ohio Book Review.

Some of her recent projects include processing the Howard Metzenbaum Congressional Collection at the Western Reserve Historical Society and participating in the Got*City GAME project as a researcher and Q&A developer.

Current projects include Rust Belt Reader, a book review site focusing on the literature of the Rust Belt; Cleveland Area History, where she is a Co-Editor; and numerous fiction projects that, one day, you may see on a reading list titled “If you like Dorothy Parker, you might also like…” or “If you like Philip Pullman, try these.”

Christine often says that living in Cleveland is like living in The Onion. Take a look at the Plain Dealer, and you’ll see that she’s often right.