Christina Rice is a librarian, archivist, wife and mother. She began collecting memorabilia relating to actress Ann Dvorak in the late 1990s which eventually lead her to document Dvorak's life and launch www.anndvorak.com. While working on the biography, she obtained an MLIS from San Jose State University and now oversees the photo collection at the Los Angeles Public Library. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, their daughter, and cat Smokey.