Poems forthcoming in Waterwheel Review and Nerve Cowboy
“Amish Love Song” in The Louisville Review, Issue 89
"How to Make a Shroud" in Club Plum Literary Journal, Volume 2 Issue 2
"Good Company," "Not/Only," and "Maiden, Mother, Crone" in Stay Journal, Issue 4
“Night Watch,” “Quotidian,” and “But Soft” in The Fib Review, Issue 38
"John Singer Sargent in a Gondola, 1880" in The Pomegranate London, Issue 1, bio here
"Speech Recognition Software Poem" in Sugar House Review, featured online in Issue 12 Sneak Peek
"Attention" poem on Lament for the Dead, August 2015
"To the Chimmmney Sweep" poem in Gravel Magazine, December 2014
"Letter to a Man" poem in Pif Magazine, Issue No. 197
"Inventing Solace" poem in The Heartland Review
Kristen's blackout poetry and portions of her writing-on-skin series have been published in the Flash anthology and are available in preview at Amazon.com
additional works have been published in Miller's Pond, Stovepipe, ACEWeekly, Zuzu's Petals Quarterly Online, and Sound and Waves of West Haven

Listen to Kristen read and discuss her poetry with Katerina Stoykova on the Accents radio show. WRFL, Lexington, KY.
Kristen was featured in the Holler Poets Series, which reached 100 incarnations, back at Holler #9. You can see photographs and read a review of Holler 9 here
Kristen has twice been a featured reader at former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor's bookstore, Poor Richards Books in Frankfort, KY, and has also been a featured reader at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, SoUPfest: The Society of Underground Poets, Poetry in the Park: a Celebration of Kentucky Writers, Big Fish in a Small Press, Unlodged Ink: Exposing the Spoken and Written Word, Hanging Dog Press, The ArtCroft Foundation: Three Poets, and The Teegarden Center for The Arts

"Letter to a Man," Madonna Marsden Award for Best Graduate Writing at Eastern Kentucky University
"Inventing Solace," Special Mention, Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize
Shortlisted for the Disquiet Literary Prize
Received a grant from Alternate ROOTS to present the poetry reading and art show Unlodged Ink: Exposing the Spoken and Written Word

Kristen was Managing Editor of Jelly Bucket Literary Journal #6 and #7, which you can purchase at the store she created
This is Kristen’s highly praised writing gig on Fiverr
Here you will find blogs Kristen wrote as the Associate Coordinator of Bluegrass Writers Studio, the Low-Residency MFA at Eastern Kentucky University

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