Author
Poet and author Christine O'Riley was born and grew up in Watertown, NY and has been writing since age eight. She holds a BA in English, cum laude, and is a semiretired RN and founder of Pencraft, a local writer's group. Christine finds writing inspiration from nature and in the spiritual realm. Her debut book The Wondrous Story of the little Shoe won The Purple Dragonfly New Author award for Excellence in Children's Literature in 2021. Her children now grown, she is grandmother to nine, soon to be eleven. She lives in Gates, NY with her husband of forty-nine years, Dick, and their feline companion, Jack.