ABOUT THE AUTHOR:  

Cristina M. R. Norcross is a writer and poet living in Wisconsin with her husband and their two sons.  She started her career in the performing arts, studying opera at the Metropolitan Opera House and Carnegie Hall in NYC.  Cristina also trained with the New Jersey Ballet Company and was a member of The Pegasus Players musical theatre company.  Cristina studied English Literature at l'Université d'Ottawa, Canada.  While living in the UK for five years, Cristina worked in the reference and publicity departments at a publishing house in Soho, London.  She also taught high school level English in North London and worked for a non-profit literacy organization, where she authored a grammar manual.  Cristina has had numerous works published in literary magazines in the United States, England, Wales, Canada and Algeria and was included in the international anthology, Contemporary Women’s Literature (2007).  She has had poems appear in The Toronto Quarterly, Your Daily Poem and The Nervous Breakdown, among others.  Cristina was published in the ekphrastic anthology, Verse and Vision (2011).  She has studied with NPR host and Harvard instructor, Nancy Aronie.  Cristina was a member of the winter writers' series at the Featherstone Meeting House for the Arts on Martha's Vineyard (2000-01).  She attended the Star Island (NH) Retreat for poets and songwriters for 2 years.  Cristina has appeared as a special guest on the program Writers in the Round on NH public radio 106.1 FM.  She is the author of Land & Sea: Poetry Inspired by Art (2007), The Red Drum (2008) and Unsung Love Songs (2010).  Cristina is the co-editor of the collaborative project, One Vision: A Fusion of Art and Poetry in Lake Country.  She is a regular open mic poetry host, arts event coordinator and teaches poetry workshops in WI. 

MEMBER OF:

Pewaukee Area Arts Council (PAAC)
Wisconsin Regional Writers Association (WRWA)
Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP)
Council for Wisconsin Writers
Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)