Cristina
Sweeney

Writer, journal keeper, and author of the forthcoming memoir Medusa’s Notebook.

Cristina's journals: a black binder on a stack of old, yellowed pages

Memoir in progress

Medusa’s Notebook

When Cristina’s daughter turned sixteen, the love story Cristina had told herself for decades began to look different. She had been sixteen once too, with a man eight years older and notebooks full of what she’d once believed.

With her editor: Revision 4

About Cristina

Cristina Sweeney grew up in northern Michigan, where water, birch trees, and sand shaped her. She lives with her husband and two Great Danes.

Cristina Sweeney

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Get Cristina’s essay, “The Girl in the Journal,” free.