Christine Fadden lives in the Pacific Northwest, but was born in Philadelphia. Thus, her heart is forever with the Phillies. "If 6 Was 9" is an excerpt from her not yet published novel, Outta Here!, which is set in 1980, in Ocean City, New Jersey. Other excerpts of Outta Here! appear in Hobart, Germ Magazine, and the American Literary Review. One chapter of the novel, "Little League Girls," won the Tennessee Williams New Orleans Literary Festival Fiction Prize in 2014, and appears in Louisiana Literature. Fadden is a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.