Christina Boufis is the author of a jail mystery series: Burial of the Dead, We Die Soon, and Killing Time. A former academic with a PhD in Victorian literature and Women's Studies, Christina spent nearly eight years teaching women in the San Francisco County Jail. As C.B. Peterson, she's also the author of a domestic thriller, I Want Him Dead. Her nonfiction includes The Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing Nonfiction, as well as a collection of essays, On the Market, co-edited with Victoria Olsen.

Christina's short stories have appeared most recently in Pulphouse Fiction Magazine, Kings River Life Magazine, Larceny and Last Chances anthology, and Rock and a Hard Place.

She lives in Alameda, California with her family.