Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
| Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz | |
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Aptowicz at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
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November 26, 1978 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, Writer |
| Nationality | American |
| Literary movement | Narrative Nonfiction Slam Poetry |
| Notable works | Dr Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine |
| Notable awards | National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Literature (2011) |
| Spouse | Ernest Cline (m. 2016) |
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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz (born November 26, 1978) is a New York Times-bestselling nonfiction writer and poet.
A native of Philadelphia, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in 1996 and received a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from New York University in 2000. Her brother, Kevin Aptowicz, is a professor of Physics at West Chester University. In 2016, she married novelist/screenwriter Ernest Cline, whom she met at the 1998 National Poetry Slam.
Aptowicz was introduced to the New York City Poetry Slam community by NYU classmate, Beau Sia. In November 1998, at age 19, she founded the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam series. NYC-Urbana was the formal continuation of a poetry slam series started by Bob Holman and as of 2008, has earned three National Poetry Slam Championships: 1997 (as Team Mouth Almighty), 2000 and 2002. Aptowicz was a member of the 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2010 NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam teams. Well-known poets who have been on NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam teams including Taylor Mali, Beau Sia, Anis Mojgani and Sarah Kay, among others. Aptowicz was also the 2010 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) representative for NYC-Urbana.
Aptowicz is the author of six books of poetry, including the recently released The Year of No Mistakes (Write Bloody Publishing, 2013), which most recently won the Writers' League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry 2013-2014 Aptowicz's previous book of poetry was Everything is Everything, which Write Bloody Publishing released in January 2010. In 2011, Write Bloody Publishing also re-released Aptowicz's first four books -- Dear Future Boyfriend (2000), Hot Teen Slut (2001), Working Class Represent (2003) and Oh, Terrible Youth (2007) -- which had originally been published by the Ann Arbor basement press, The Wordsmith Press.
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