Kristin was born and spent her childhood in Tucson, AZ, and then went to college at Northland College in Ashland, WI on the shores of Lake Superior.
She had dreams of being a forest ranger but ended up loving literature too much to stop taking English courses. But those two sharp contrasts in landscape and weather forged her poetic voice, reflecting both her desert and immigrant heritage and her love of the green woods and hospitality of the Midwest.
After graduate school in Duluth, Minnesota, Kristin and her husband lived in the Denver metro area, and then central Texas.
Since 2003, Kristin has lived in Chicago's far western suburbs and taught English at Joliet Junior College. She graduated with an MFA in creative writing poetry in 2007 from the Stonecoast Writing Program at the University of Southern Maine.
She's active in Chicago's open-mic scene, and her work has appeared in the journals Fifth Wednesday, After Hours, Pearl, and Rambunctious Review, as well as online at New Verse News and La Fovea.
She has a chapbook of dramatic monologues titled Town Limits: Red Beaver Lake, Minnesota published by Pudding House Press and another titled Blood from Naked Mannequin Press.
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