Kristin Bair O’Keeffe

Kristin Bair O’Keeffe is the author of Thirsty and an American who has been living in Shanghai, China, since April 2006. She often writes about writing, far-flung places, and the convergence of the two, and her work has been published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Poets & Writers Magazine, The Baltimore Review, The Gettysburg Review, and lots of other places. Although she still writes longhand, she’s one of those writers that embraces technology and all the fun new stuff that comes along with it; she Twitters, Facebooks, blogs, and even reads lots of books on a Kindle. Kristin haedGes an MFA in fiction writing, has been teaching writing workshops for the past fifteen years, and is the curator of Out Loud! The Shanghai Writers Literary Salon.To dig deeper, visit www.thirstythenovel.com or Kristin’s blog at www.kristinbairokeeffeblog.com.Hello, My Name Is _______. Shameless Self Promotion and the Art of Networking for Authors, Sunday, March 7, 12pm.