Cristina's work can be seen on the web at www.mamazine.com and at the Bear River Review. She also keeps a blog on her life as a writer called When Line Drops From the Sky.

Her newspaper features and her regular column can be read at www.tecumsehherald.com.

She also co-owns a writing consulting/coaching business. 
Details can be found at www.writingconsultantsnetwork.com

Cristina Trapani-Scott is a versatile writer. She crafts poetry, short stories, and is working on a novel all while working full time as a mother and journalist. She recently completed her Master of Fine Art in Creative Writing at Spalding University in Kentucky and is revising her first novel.

Cristina loves the written word and considers many among her influences, including but not limited to Laura Kasischke, Crystal Wilkinson, Jody Lisberger, Adria Bernardi, Renee Mandredi, Sandra M. Gilbert and Thomas Lynch. She's especially fond of Italian-American writers. Her very first creative influence was her artist mother who dragged her kicking and screaming to places like the Detroit Institute of Arts. She's ever so grateful now for that exposure to color and creativity. When Cristina is not writing, she loves playing Uno with her children, taking her dog for walks, hanging out with her dear partner, Jay, knitting and beadweaving. She's also become quite the gardener.

What happens to a person who is raised in this environment full of color, loud music, loud voices, and genuine crying at funerals and then finds herself in a world where the highest emotional charge comes from the falling of the Dow Jones average, or yet another rise in the price of gold?

--American author Tina De Rosa