Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz is is a boot-stomping wit-slinging sass machine, living and writing in New York City. Founder and host of the three-time National Poetry Slam Championship Venue, NYC Urbana (run out of the brand spanking new house of poetry, the Bowery Poetry Club), Cristin holds the title of youngest slammaster in the nation, a title she has held for the last five years ever since she founded Urbana at the tender age of 19. Cristin currently has written three books of poetry as well as three screenplays, including "Mutter," which ran the Grand Prize at this year's Philadelphia Film Festival. Widely anthologized and an experienced touring poet, Cristin's latest project is an oral history of the slam movement (co-edited by fellow slam vet Phil West) which will be Soft Skull Press in 2004. She is a member of 1998 NYC-URBANA (Team Member)1999 PROVIDENCE (Slammaster/Coach)2000 NYC-URBANA (Slammaster/Coach)2001 NYC-URBANA (Team Member)2002 NYC-URBANA (Slammaster/Coach)
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