As an artist, the biggest day of t.santitoro's life was the day she met her role model, Mr. Frank Frazetta at his art museum in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, USA. She is both an artist and a writer, whose unique illustrations have been published in fanzines like FOSFAX and Challenger, and ezines such as Star Leaper and The Martian Wave under the signature 7ARS. Her artwork has been published in poetry books and story books by Sam's Dot Publishing, and she has done cover art for iUniverse. She has six illustrations in the iUniverse/Sam's Dot Publishing art anthology, The Modern Art Cave, and a chapbook of her original artwork by Sam's Dot Publishing, entitled,Phasing. She was the Featured Artist for Strange Horizons in August, 2003.

As a writer, t.santitoro has had stories and poems published under the names (xeno-unit), -sakyu- and t.santitoro in ezines such as Aoife's Kiss, Star Leaper, and Pegasus Dreaming, as well as flash fiction ( in the June issue of the iSciFiStory Newsletter and in The Martian Wave) and chapters on Cyber-Thoughts by Ron Sparks. She also has an unpublished original scifi novel trilogy called The Telempath, and a novel set in 1870s Oregon titled Billy Blue Eyes.