Cristina is a finalist for the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for Fiction for her novel, The World in Half. The winners will be announced in May.

Penguin has put together a reading guide – perfect for book clubs or general discussion – for The World in Half.

Cristina’s debut novel, The World in Half, has just been released in paperback.

Listen to Cristina talk about the ways in which Chicago has undergone a literary renaissance of late on WBEZ 91.5 Chicago Public Radio.

The World in Half makes LargeheartedBoy.com’s list of his top 10 favorite novels of 2009.  Here‘s the Book Notes essay Cristina contributed to the site last April, too, about the music that inspired portions of the book.

The Canadian edition of Metro featured The World in Half as a Book Pick.

Cristina tells the story of when she first knew she wanted to be a writer.

Cristina writes about the songs she listened to while writing her novel in a post on the music blog Largehearted Boy.

Cristina discusses the top 3 reasons she writes fiction in the New York City edition of Metro.

Cristina contributed a list of 34 Texas-related books to Amazon’s book blog, Omnivoracious, as part of a series inspired by State by State.