Christian Wallace

Christian Wallace is a screenwriter and journalist from West Texas. Raised in Andrews among cotton farmers, oilfield hands, and working cowboys, he was the first in his family to graduate from college (Texas State) before earning a master’s degree in writing from the University of Galway in Ireland. After returning to the U.S., he worked as a roughneck on the rigs outside his hometown.

In 2016, Texas Monthly hired Wallace as a fact-checker; he later became a staff writer and senior editor, writing seven cover stories and earning three National Magazine Award nominations along with other honors. His reported stories have been optioned for adaptation by 101 Studios, HBO, Tom Hanks’s Playtone, and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way.

Wallace created and hosted Boomtown, the hit podcast about the Permian Basin with more than 7.6 million downloads. He and Taylor Sheridan co-created Paramount+’s Landman, which debuted in November 2024 and became the platform’s most-watched original. He is a member of WGA West and the Texas Institute of Letters.