Cristina Trapani-scott

Cristina Trapani-Scott has worked as journalist for the Tecumseh Herald, a 150-year-old community newspaper, for eight years. She writes a regular column that often is humorous and sometimes, on those rare occasions when she crawls out from under her blue rock in the midst of a pretty darn red community, she gets political. In 2005, she received a National Newspaper Assocation Award for Best Humor Column. She's also a published poet. Her poems have appeared in Hip Mama Magazine and at www.mamazine.com. She is the 2003 winner of the Chelsea Poetry Competition in Chelsea, Michigan, not to be confused with the Chelsea Literary Magazine's Chelsea Poetry Award. She is currently at work on a novel and is pursuing her MFA in fiction, with a minor in poetry, at Spalding Univeristy in Kentucky.

Just to make me a sound a little more human than the above bio does, I love reading and off-loom beadweaving, though I haven't done much of the beadweaving in a while.

I'm currently reading Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation.

My favorite books include, Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Beloved by Toni Morrison and The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke. I also recommend Miss Giardino by Dorothy Bryant and Openwork by Adria Bernardi.

My favorite poem is Denise Duhamel's "The Difference Between Pepsi and Pope." I also love Thomas Lynch's poem "Liberty." I think I love these poems for their humor.