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Writing Right: Check out my blog
on the Peace Corps Worldwide website. "Writing Right" is about
professional business writing with a little bit of fun. We all
like fun, right?
50 Years Young:
My essay "Carrot Cake in a Revolution" is featured in the anthology Peace Corps at 50,
celebrating the 50th anniversary of
Peace Corps. The story is
about being an observer in a real historical event,
and, well, about carrot cake. Check it out on
Amazon.
Upcoming
Readings:
February 13th
with the Fresh Meadows Poets at the Bellerose Senior
Center. Reading begins at 1pm.
March 10th
with the Fresh Meadows Poets at the Queens Botanical
Garden. Reading begins at 2pm. |
About the Author
Since she was seven years old, Cristina has
pursued creative writing in its various forms: poetry,
essays and book-length creative non-fiction. Under her pen
name, Cristina T. Lopez, her writing has appeared in both
print and online anthologies.
In 2003, Cristina published her first
non-fiction book, Finding Francis, about finding
someone she hadn’t seen in twenty years (Author House). She
is currently working on her second book of letters to a lost
friend, Letters to Helen.
Cristina is
a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania (cum laude,
1997). She is a member of the International Women Writers’
Guild (IWWG), Fresh Meadows Poets and was a resident poet at
the Vermont Studio Center for November 2001. Cristina spent
2003 to 2005 in Ukraine as a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer.
She lives in Stewart Manor, New York with her husband, Thomas, and
daughters, Dalia and Juliana.
For an
overview of the online and print publications where Cristina
has appeared, please view her
full publishing credits.
In 2008, Cristina
started LookOut Communications as a
business to help other businesses. The idea was to create
an enterprise that reflected both sides of her writing
personality: the creative fun of writing and the rush that
comes from good business prose. For information on LookOut
Communications, please check out the
business solutions area
of the site.
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