Christina Weaver grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. She studied painting and drawing at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from Indiana University Bloomington. She has received the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant for artists who work representationally. In 2015 she was a resident artist at Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, and she has taught art in a variety of settings. Christina lives near Waynesville, North Carolina, in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains.