Christina Marie Kanistanaux was born, during a snow storm, in Roosevelt, Utah and grew up in Vernal, Utah and Kelseyville, California, and lived for a while in St. George, Utah. She decided to become a ceramic artist when she was sixteen and has been working, directly and indirectly, towards that since. In 2009, she packed up her two children and moved across the country and started college when her son started kindergarten. She has been in numerous exhibitions and was a participant in the Kiln2Table experience Winter 2016. In the summer of 2016 she was awarded with a scholarship for a summer workshop residency at Watershed in Maine. She attended the University of Arkansas and obtained her Bachelors of Fine Arts degree in Studio Ceramics in the spring of 2017. She now resides in Brooklyn, New York. Making work and teaching pottery once again.

Christina is a decedent of the Magalloway band of the Anasigunticook Abenaki tribe in Maine and the Pequot and Narragansett tribes by way of the Brothertown Indians.