Cristina M. R. Norcross lives in Wisconsin and is the editor of the Blue Heron Review. She is also the author of nine poetry collections, and her most recent books are The Sound of a Collective Pulse (Kelsay Books, 2021) and Beauty in the Broken Places (Kelsay Books, 2019). Cristina’s work appears in: Visual Verse, Your Daily Poem, Poetry Hall, Verse-Virtual, The Ekphrastic Review, and Pirene’s Fountain, among others. Her work also appears in numerous print anthologies. Cristina has helped organize community art/poetry projects, has led writing workshops, and has hosted many readings. She is the co-founder of Random Acts of Poetry & Art Day.
