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A former valedictorian and Pequot Lakes basketball player, Kristina has been busy since she left the Lakes region, attending college at the University of Minnesota-Morris, where she majored in psychology and minored in Spanish. She went on to graduate school in Ohio where she obtained her doctorate in counseling psychology.

While Kristina does not practice psychology in an office, she still uses her education every day-for raising her three young boys and for her writing.

Kristina wanted to be a writer all her life and won the Minnesota High School Writer Scotty's Award when she was a senior in high school,  thanks to her English teacher, Rene Thaler, who submitted Kristina's work.

Monday, August 20, 2007

Rochester festival brings local writers to spotlight

ROCHESTER - Hoping to generate more interest in reading and writing, local authors were invited to the Lilac Mall Saturday afternoon to show off some of their work.

Denise Carter, manager of Waldenbooks, organized the Writer's Fest, hoping to bring attention to the local authors and show the public some new reading options.

"It's my responsibility to the community to generate an interest in reading and show people it's possible, if you have an idea, to see it grow," Carter said.

A total of eight authors attended the event, including Jeremy Robinson from Breakneck Books Publishing Company, who helped to organize the event. Robinson said he thought
the Writer's Fest would be a good way to introduce the community to some of the authors that live in the area.

Sanborn/Democrat photo Local authors A.J. Matthers, Kristina Schram and Jeremy Robinson were among eight writers who attended the first Writer's Fest at the Lilac Mall.