CONTACT

bookndz@yahoo.com

603-978-8441

FirkinFiction.com

BIO

Cristina M.R. Norcross resides in the U.S. with her husband and her two sons. She graduated with a B.A. Honors Degree in English Literature from the University of Ottawa, Canada. Cristina lived in London, England for five years where she worked in publishing and taught high school level English. She also taught creative writing and language skills at a youth organization and is the author of a grammar usage manual. Cristina attended the Winter Writers Series at the Featherstone Center for the Arts and also studied with Nancy Slonim Aronie (author of Writing from the Heart ) while living on Martha's Vineyard, MA. Ms. Norcross has had over 50 short stories, poems and articles published in literary magazines in England, Wales, The United States, Canada and Algeria. Cristina has been published in both English and German and in Acorn Magazine and The Best of Acorn: An Anthology (Nottinghamshire, England), Linkway Magazine (Carmarthenshire, Wales), Yawp Literary Magazine (Ottawa, Canada) and in the Spring 2009 issue of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Museletter. Cristina is also co-editor of the Lake Country Project for Artists and Poets 2009-2010.

PUBLICATIONS

Jan. 21st show - "The Muse and You Blog Talk Radio Show" w/ Host Mark David Gerson
blogtalkradio.com/markdavid/2010/01/21/the-muse-and-you-with-mark-david-gerson

BOOKINGS

2010

January
Featured author at the Books & Co. Local Author Book Signing Event, along with fellow WFOP member Liz Rhodebeck and several others on January 16th from 1:00-3:00 PM in Oconomowoc. On January 21st at 1:00 PM, interviewed on The Muse and You Blog Talk Radio Show with host Mark David Gerson. blogtalkradio.com/redriverwriterslive/2010/01/21/the-muse-you-with-mark-david- gerson.