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Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz ( ; born November 26, 1978) is an American nonfiction writer and
poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...
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Life

A native of
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, the daughter of Bruce S. Aptowicz and Maureen (O'Keefe) Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz graduated from
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in 1996 and earned a B.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from
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in 2000. Her brother, Kevin Aptowicz, is a professor of physics at
West Chester University West Chester University (also known as West Chester, WCU, or WCUPA, and officially as West Chester University of Pennsylvania) is a public research university located in and around West Chester, Pennsylvania. The university is accredited by the ...
.West Chester University: Kevin Aptowicz page
 On June 18, 2016, she married novelist/screenwriter
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, whom she met at the 1998
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.


Poetry

Aptowicz was introduced to the New York City
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community by NYU classmate,
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.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' CHAPTER 19: "And Two Become Three; Mouth Almighty Becomes NYC-Urbana and Nuyo's Championship Team Becomes louderARTS" Page 177.
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. . In November 1998, at age 19, she founded the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam series.''Spindle Magazine'' "Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz: Slamming History" by Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
 NYC-Urbana was the formal continuation of a
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series started by
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and as of 2008, has earned three
National Poetry Slam The National Poetry Slam (NPS) was a performance poetry competition where teams from across the United States, Canada, and, occasionally, Europe and Australia, participate in a large-scale poetry slam. The event occurred in early August every y ...
Championships: 1997 (as Team Mouth Almighty), 2000 and 2002.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' "New York Poetry Slam Teams from 1990 to 2007" Page 367-368.
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. Aptowicz was a member of the 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2010 NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam teams. Well-known poets who have been on NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam teams including
Taylor Mali Taylor McDowell Mali (born March 28, 1965) is an American slam poet, humorist, teacher and voiceover artist. Life A 12th-generation native of New York City, Taylor Mali graduated from the Collegiate School, a private school for boys, in 1983. ...
,
Beau Sia Beaufort Benjamin Sia (, born 1976) is an American Poetry slam, slam poet. Life and career Sia was born in Ohio. He is of Chinese-Filipino descent. Raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Sia discovered spoken word poetry on MTV as a teenager. When ...
,
Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is an American spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani has been characterized as a "geek genius" with "fiercely hopeful word arias." Ear ...
and Sarah Kay, among others. Aptowicz was the 2010 Women of the World Poetry Slam (WOWps) representative for NYC-Urbana. Aptowicz is the author of eight books of poetry, including the recently released, ''Against Vanishing'' (
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, 2025). Her previous book, ''The Year of No Mistakes'' ''(
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, 2018)'' won the Writers' League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry 2013–2014. Aptowicz's other books of poetry are: ''Dear Future Boyfriend'' (2000), ''Hot Teen Slut'' (2001), ''Working Class Represent'' (2003) and ''Oh, Terrible Youth'' (2007) and ''Everything is Everything'' (2010), which are all available via ''
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''. Aptowicz appeared in the concert film ''
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& Friends Live at the
Bowery Poetry Club The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Chapter 26: What the ...
'' and in the documentary; ''Slam Planet'' (2006). In 2003, she served the overseas mentor for ''Mouth Off!'', a youth poetry show commissioned by the
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. She frequently tours with poets
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, Derrick Brown and
Anis Mojgani Anis Mojgani (Persian: انیس مژگانی) (born June 13, 1977) is an American spoken word poet, visual artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. Mojgani has been characterized as a "geek genius" with "fiercely hopeful word arias." Ear ...
on their "poetry revival tours," joining them on their 2008 Junkyard Ghost Revival tour, 2009 Elephant Engine High Dive Revival tour and 2010 Night Kite Revival tour. Aptowicz received a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry. She is one of only handful of "slam poets" who have won NEA grants. As of 2011, the other poets are
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(who was on the
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Poetry Slam team in 1993,Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.''
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: Soft Skull Press. " Chapter 14: First and Always; Graduates from the NYC Poetry Slam's First Wave" Page 122. . and won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1994 , National Endowment of the Arts List of Literature Fellows: 1967 – 2007); Jeffrey McDaniel (who was on numerous DC and California slam teams in the mid to late 1990s, and won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2003); and Adrienne Su (who was on the
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Poetry Slam team in 1991, and won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2007). Aptowicz was awarded the 2013 Amy Clampitt Residency. The residency takes place in the former residence of poet
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and provides "an established or emerging poet or literary scholar with the rare gift of extended time and a reasonable stipend so that he or she may substantially further his or her creative work." Amy Clampitt Website: Original Press Press Announcing Residency Aptowicz is the first poet from a poetry slam background to be awarded this residency. Amy Clampitt Website: List of Poets Who Have Been Awarded the Amy Clampitt Residency


Non-fiction

Aptowicz has published non-fiction essays, articles and excerpts in
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, Bust magazine,
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's Poetry Channel and the spoken word anthology ''Word Warriors''.Aptowicz website: Non-Fiction page
 In 2008, Soft Skull Press published Aptowicz's first book of nonfiction, ''Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.''Soft Skull website: ''Words In Your Face'' page
 U.S. Poet Laureate
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wrote that the book "leaves no doubt that the slam poetry scene has achieved legitimacy and taken its rightful place on the map of contemporary literature"''Words In Your Face'' back cover
/ref> and ''
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'' named it one of five Notable Books on Exploring Poetry in 2008. Aptowicz spent 4 years writing the book, which "explores the birth, growing pains and continuing development of the Poetry Slam." The book features interviews with
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Maggie Estep Margaret Ann "Maggie" Estep (March 20, 1963 – February 12, 2014) was an American writer and poet, best known for coming to prominence during the height of the spoken word and poetry slam performance rage. She published seven books and rel ...
,
Bob Holman Bob Holman is an American poet and poetry activist, most closely identified with the oral tradition, the spoken word, and poetry slam. As a promoter of poetry in many media, Holman has spent the last four decades working variously as an author ...
and
Slamnation ''SlamNation'' is a 1998 documentary film by director Paul Devlin. The film follows the National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon. It follows the 1996 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team (Saul Williams, Beau Sia, muMs da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore ...
director Paul Devlin, among others. Aptowicz wrote the non-fiction screenplay ''Mütter'', based on the life of
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founder Thomas Dent Mütter. It won the 2003 "Set In Philadelphia" Screenwriting Award at the Philadelphia Film FestivalGreater Philadelphia Film Office: SIP Screenwriting Award
 and a
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Fellowship at the 2004 Hampton International Film Festival. In 2005, she was invited to attend the 2005 Sloan Film Summit in support of the screenplay, and wrote an article about her experiences at the Summit by
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's
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.''The Sloan Film Summit'' by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz. Museum of the Moving Image website.
 As of 2008, the screenplay remained unproduced. A short based on the feature-length script was created as a part of the Philadelphia Film Festival prize package.
 In 2010, Aptowicz was named the 2010–2011
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ArtsEdge Writer-in-Residence to work on a non-fiction book about the life of Mutter. Aptowicz's biography of Mütter, ''Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine'' was published in September 2014 by the
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division of Penguin.Amazon Page for Dr. Mütter's Marvels''
/ref> The book received starred reviews in
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and
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. The hardcover debuted at #7 on ''
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'' Bestseller List for Books about Health, and remained on the list for three months. In March 2023, it was announced the Aptowicz signed a publishing deal with
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for a new nonfiction called 'The Uprising.' The announcement describes the book as "a tale of surprising abolitionist collaboration between Philadelphia's wealthy free Black elite, rural white Quaker farmers, and the self-emancipated families who worked in both worlds, culminating in the Christiana Resistance, a bloody clash between enslavers and the formerly enslaved, and the ensuing 'trial of the century,' publicly challenging the
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and turning the nation's mood from compromise to war, revealing the power of ordinary people standing together against injustice."Aptowicz Twitter Post Announcing ''The Uprising' Book Deal
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Published works


Books

* ''Against Vanishing'' (
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, 2025; ) * ''How to Love the Empty Air'' (
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, 2018; ) * ''Dr. Mütter's Marvels: A True Tale of Intrigue and Innovation at the Dawn of Modern Medicine'' (
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, 2014; ) * ''The Year of No Mistakes'' (
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, 2013; ) * ''Everything is Everything'' (
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, 2010; ) * ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam'' (
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, 2008; ) * ''Oh Terrible Youth'' (2007) (
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, 2011; ) * ''Working Class Represent'' (2004) (
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, 2011; ) * ''Hot Teen Slut'' (2001) (
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, 2011; ) * ''Dear Future Boyfriend'' (2000) (
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, 2011; )


Awards

* 2022 Hall of Fame Inductee: Central High School of Philadelphia * Winner: Writers' League of Texas Book of the Year Award for Poetry 2013–2014 * Winner: Writer-in-Residence: Amy Clampitt House (2013) * NEA Fellowship: National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Poetry (2011) * Winner: Writer-in-Residence
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(2010–2011) * Winner: Poet in Residence: Culver Academies in Culver, Indiana (2009) * Winner: Nadine B. Andreas Public Scholar in Speech Communication, Minnesota State University, Mankato (2008). * Winner: Hampton International Film Festival's Sloan Fellowship for Screenwriting (2004) * Semi-Finalist:
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for ''Mütter'' (2004) * Winner: Grand Prize, Philadelphia Film Festival for ''Mütter'' (2003). * Winner: Myers Foundation Grant (2001 and 2003) * Two-Time Winner: National Poetry Slam: Slammaster's Slam (2000, 2001). * Three-time Winner: NYU/Barnes and Noble Monologue Contest (1999–2000)


See also

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Performance poetry Performance poetry is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a Performance art, performance before an audience. It covers a variety of styles and genres. History The phenomenon of performance poetry, a kind of poetry specifically m ...
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Poetry slam A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word, spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges. Poetry slams began in Chicago in the 1980s, with the first slam competition designed to move poetry rec ...
*
Spoken word Spoken word is an oral poetic performance art that is based mainly on the poem as well as the performer's aesthetic qualities. It is a 20th-century continuation of an oral tradition, ancient oral artistic tradition that focuses on the aesthetic ...
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Bowery Poetry Club The Bowery Poetry Club is a New York City poetry performance space founded by Bob Holman in 2002.Aptowicz, Cristin O'Keefe. (2008). ''Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam.'' Chapter 26: What the ...


References


External links

*
Five-Part Interview with Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz by Roxane Gay, published in HTML Giant
* Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz's poem "Your Wife" in
''Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature and Fine Arts'' (25.1)

Audio of "Lit," "To Whom It May Concern," "All I'd Leave Behind," "On Reading Unrequited Love Poems," and "Mother" (among others) on Indiefeed Performance Poetry Channel; Includes nine-part podcast series on ''Words In Your Face''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Aptowicz, Cristin Okeefe 1978 births Central High School (Philadelphia) alumni Living people Slam poets American women poets American spoken word poets Novelists from Philadelphia Poets from Philadelphia Tisch School of the Arts alumni National Endowment for the Arts Fellows Writers from New York City