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Life. A native of Philadelphia, the daughter of Bruce S. Aptowicz and Maureen (O'Keefe) Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz graduated from Central High School of Philadelphia in 1996 and earned 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. [3]
Cristin is married to fellow bestselling author and screenwriter Ernest Cline. She lives in Austin, Texas with her family and their two eccentric rescue dachshunds. For the truly curious, here’s the longer story: Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (b. 1978) was born and raised in Philadelphia.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is an American poet and 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow in Poetry. She is the author of seven books of poetry, including the forthcoming How to Love the Empty Air (Write Bloody Publishing), as well as the canonical slam history, Words in Your Face (Soft Skull Press), which U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins wrote “leaves no doubt that the slam poetry ...
In 2010, Aptowicz was named the ArtsEdge writer-in-residence at the University of Pennsylvania. The recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, she has performed her work at international venues that include the Sydney Opera House, the Gasworks Art Complex in Melbourne, Australia, and the Largo Theater in Los Angeles.
Jan 10, 2011 · Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz talks at TEDxPhilly about "how you can turn nerdy obsessions into things that can transform your life," but not without working for it. Aptowicz spent eight years working in a cubicle (the same cubicle) and writing, publishing, and touring on the side before making the decision that she was going to live the life of the writer she thought of herself as.
Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1978. She received a BFA from New York University, where she cofounded the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam.
Vulnerable, beautiful and ultimately life-au001cffirming, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz reaches new heights in her revelatory seventh collection of poetry. Continuing in her tradition of engaging, autobiographic work How to Love the Empty Air explores what happens when the author’s life reels in an upward trajectory and is soon rocked by the ...
