Art Reception: American Beauty: Tina Traster

Tina Traster is a socially conscious, award-winning journalist, author, filmmaker, and photographer. Traster is also the Editor/Publisher of the Rockland County Business Journal. Traster's documentary films have played in festivals worldwide; Catnip Nation garnered several awards. Her written work and photography have appeared in scores of newspapers, magazines, blogs, and literary journals including The New York Times, The New York Post, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, The Atlantic, The Federalist, Redbook, Family Circle, Parade, Time Out New York, Audubon, Ski Magazine, and many others. She is the author of the award-winning memoir Rescuing Julia Twice: A Mother's Tale of Russian Adoption and Overcoming Reactive Attachment Disorder. Since 2006, Traster wrote the long-running "Burb Appeal" column for The New York Post.