Sharing my immigrant experience with high school English Learner students and teaching them creative writing strategies to tell their personal stories in their scholarship and college applications. 

Social media

* Twitter:@Cristinawriteon

* Facebook: In Her Write Mind

* Instagram/Threads: @kickbuttwriter
* Member:MN BIPOC Kidlit Creators
                              The Authors Guild​

News

* Interview: From the Mixed-Up Files of Middle-Grade Authors
* Interview: Minnesota's KFAI - Filipino American National News 

* Video: Kuwentuhang Pilipino (Filipino Storytime) for the Bergenfield Public Library & the Filipino School of New York & New Jersey
*Interview: Storytime Solidarity

* Podcast guest: ShowPowSho
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Reading Tara and the Towering Wave and talking to students about writing, research, military service, and author life at a World Read Aloud Day event at an elementary school.

About Cristina

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Reading Tae Kwon Do Test and teaching basic Tae Kwon Do punching, kicking, and board breaking techniques during story time at a public library. 

Having fun visiting classrooms at an elementary school after talking about Stephen Hawking: Get to Know the Man Behind the Theory and answering students' questions. 

                                  Cristina is a Filipino American author.

                           She earned an MFA in creative writing for                                children and young adults and a BA in                                      journalism. She writes fiction and                                             nonfiction, from picture books and chapter books to middle grade and graphic novels. She received the 2019-2020 Mirrors & Windows Fellowship for indigenous writers and writers of color at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she is a teaching artist. She is a former journalist, former middle school-high school educator, a U.S. Air Force veteran, and a fulltime public relations professional. 

      Besides writing, she enjoys pending time with family and friends, cooking (Food Network fanatic), baking (county fair blue ribbon winner), Taekwondo (2nd degree black belt), supernatural (like Wednesday and Halloweentown) and paranormal TV shows (has gone ghost hunting), and comic cons (got a cape). She also draws and hopes to illustrate her own book.