After high school, Oxenberg worked various jobs in New York ranging from a secretary to a roller-rink attendant. She would then go on a backpacking trip around the world before returning to New York City. Upon her return, Oxenberg secured a job at
Studio 54. In 1986, she published her first book,
Taxi, a collection of celebrity anecdotes and personal observations revolving around experiences in taxicabs. In
Taxi,
Andy Warhol,
Bob Costas,
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and numerous others are featured. In 1994,
Simon & Schuster commissioned Oxenberg to write a semi-autobiographical novel that would eventually be published as
Royal Blue. The novel was released in 1997 in the United States and was published by Quartet in the United Kingdom in 1998. The book is fictional but contains true elements. The book received generally favorable reviews from publications like
The Independent and
The Times. As a result of the book, Oxenberg appeared on the cover of
New York Magazine In 2000, Oxenberg went on hiatus from writing and took a job at
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s
Waterkeeper Alliance. Through that job she met Fernando Alvarez, a
Peruvian businessman living in Banff, Alberta, Canada. The two discussed the possibility of a clothing line using Oxenberg's name. They designed, produced and wholesaled a collection of knitwear. The pair used fibers such as the guanaco from Patagonia, the
suri-alpaca from the high Andes and the muskox from the indigenous population in the North West Territories of Canada. From 2002 to 2010, Oxenberg produced two clothing lines (
Christina Oxenberg and
Ox). Additionally, her writing has appeared in publications like
Allure,
Penthouse,
The Sunday Times,
Takimag (where she published a weekly column), In 2011, she moved from the Northeastern United States to
Key West, Florida. Many of the stories in her short story collections like
Will Write for Compliments and
Life is Short: Read Short Stories are about or set in Key West. Since 2012 Oxenberg has contributed articles to Key West weekly magazine
Konk Life. In 2014, Oxenberg helped organize a visit by
John Hemingway (
Ernest Hemingway's grandson) to
David Wolkowsky's
Tennessee Williams Collection. In 2015, Christina Oxenberg moved to Serbia for a year to write and research her book, ''Royal Dynasty – An Insider's History of the Serbian Royal Family
, which was published in Serbian in 2015 by the publisher, Laguna. For her work, Oxenberg received an award from the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2016. In February 2018, Dynasty: A True Story
was published in English in the UK by the publisher, Quartet Books. Subsequently, Oxenberg was interviewed by the Sunday Times
, Radio Gorgeous and Tatler'', and she presented the book at the Oxford Literary Festival on 22 March 2018. In 2022, she caused a stir with an interview with the
New York Post where she discussed the British royals and their long history of hazing newcomers. ==Bibliography==