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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.

Walker’s poetry has gained recognition in leading magazines, including PN Review, Wild Court, The Tangerine, and The Manhattan Review, and her work has been featured on RTÉ Radio 1's The Poetry Programme. 

COCO ISLAND has been shortlisted for the OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature 2025, the John Pollard International Prize for Poetry 2025 and the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2025.

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