Christina Marrocco
Author and Poet
News
Team Christina is very excited to receive the first review of The Way Beauty Comes Apart. The book is set in Wales so it's especially nice to get a review like this from an author/blogger who lives in that country. Pre-orders open soon! In the meantime, enjoy this insightful write-up by Chris Malone.
Northern Public Radio's Yvonne Boose interviewed Christina to learn more about her forthcoming novel-in-stories, The Way Beauty Comes Apart.
Christina Marrocco, PhD, associate professor of English at Elgin Community College, is the 2022 winner of the Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award for Indie Fiction. Marrocco’s novel, Addio, Love Monster, tells a series of linked stories spanning generations on the ‘regular’ yet remarkable Singer Street of fictional midcentury Mulberry Park, just outside of Chicago.
This past June, Elgin Community College English professor Christina Marrocco, Ph.D., published her novel “Addio, Love Monster.” The story received critical acclaim and won the award for the Chicago Writers Association 2022 Book of the Year in the Indie Fiction category.