Christine Howey, Artist-Activist

Christine Howey is an award-winning actor, director, theater critic, transgender activist and performance poet. She was the Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights, Ohio for 2016-2018. Her one-person stage play of poetry about her transgender journey, Exact Change, was turned into a feature film. The film is an official selection of the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival in 2018 (Oct. 3-7).    Christine has four books of poetry published. She is also a slam poet and competed in the National Poetry Slams in 2013 and 2017.  Her newest book is Citizen of Metropolis, from Crisis Chronicles Press, August 2018   Find much more online, and her books at christinehoweypoetry.blogspot.com