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Christine Roseeta Walker is a Jamaican poet and novelist living in Manchester, England.

She graduated from the University of Manchester with a master’s degree in Creative Writing and is the author of COCO ISLAND, a poetry collection published by Carcanet Press in 2024. Her writing is deeply rooted in her Jamaican heritage, drawing inspiration from its culture, people, and landscape. Despite spending most of her adult life outside of Jamaica, her muse remains the Jamaica of the 1990s. She describes writing about that period as "an acceptance of absence and an attempt to document the people and places that have moulded my imagination." Declan Ryan has described her work as "a myth-tinged tour of(Negril's)sights and “characters” with a recurring cast of figures who grow familiar." Ryan wrote earlier in his review of COCO ISLAND that "Christine Roseeta Walker’s debut collection is one in which a single place comes to feel like the world(...) with characters fleshed out in the way one might expect in a novel." Walker describes herself as a novelist who writes poetry and feels that she has achieved what she set out to accomplish with COCO ISLAND. She is currently searching for a home for her debut novel, THE GRASS IS WEEPING, a work of literary fiction focusing on character development and emotional depth.

Walker’s poetry has gained recognition in esteemed publications such as PN Review, Wild Court, and The Tangerine poetry magazines and was aired on RTÉ Radio 1-The Poetry Programme. She has a poem appearing this autumn in The Manhattan Review, New York.

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