About Kristina

Most children bring toys into the bath, but I took pencils and paper and wrote stories.

Historical fiction, for instance, about pilgrims celebrating the first Thanksgiving in the New World. Most five-year-olds borrow library books from the kids' section. I wandered to the grown-up science section and fetched a tome on Prosimian biology. The world beyond the rusty fringes of Cleveland—where I grew up—was calling.

When Northwestern University accepted my college application, I answered the call. Three years after I graduated from the School of Speech, I returned for a graduate degree in journalism. Soon I was chasing stories in Washington, D.C. as a full-time reporter and editor. I covered education, and later, energy policy on Capitol Hill. I met my future husband and stayed for about eight years.

After buzzing through the Beltway's frenzied corridors, I eased into freelancing full-time. My husband and I moved back to Chicago, where we had our first child. A few years later, I had another baby.

Finding journalism's break-neck pace incompatible with full-time motherhood, I again switched gears: I wrote two books. The first examines perinatal mood disorders and how new parents can find healing and hope. The second is an anthology of true stories about grief and loss and how Jesus Christ meets us on the edges with His transformative redemption.

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