Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction author and poet. She is the author of six books of poetry and two nonfiction books, most recently DR MUTTER'S MARVELS: A TRUE TALE OF INTRIGUE AND INNOVATION AT THE DAWN OF MODERN MEDICINE, which debuted at #7 on the NYTimes Bestseller List for Books about Health and would stay on it for three months. It would also make several national “Best Books of 2014″ lists (including Amazon, The Onion’s AV Club, NPR’s Science Friday and the UK newspaper The Guardian, among others). Her sixth book of poetry, THE YEAR OF NO MISTAKES, was released by Write Bloody Publishing in Fall 2013, and would go on to win the Writers’ League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry (2013-2014). Her most recent awards include the ArtsEdge Writer-In-Residency at the University of Pennsylvania (2010-2011), a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry (2011) and the Amy Clampitt Residency (2013). When not on tour, she lives with her family in Austin, TX.
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