Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's work can be found in McSweeney’s Internet Tendancies, Rattle, Barrelhouse, decomP, kill author and Conduit, among others. She is the author of the non-fiction book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam (Soft Skull Press, 2008) as well as five books of poetry, most recently Everything is Everything (Write Bloody Press, 2010). When not on tour, she can be found loitering at NYC's Bowery Poetry Club, where she helps run the Tuesday night poetry slam series, NYC-Urbana, and dates the surly barkeep, poet Shappy Seasholtz. For more information, please visit her website: www.aptowicz.com