Kristina Marie Darling is the author of 27 books, most recently Ghost / Landscape with John Gallaher (BlazeVOX Books, 2016), and Je Suis L'Autre: Essays & Interrogations (C&R Press, 2017). She earned her BA and MA from Washington University in St. Louis. Her awards include three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship; a Fundacion Valparaiso Fellowship; and residencies at the American Academy in Rome. She is the recipient of grants from the Whiting Foundation and the John Anson Kittredge Fund. Her poems appear in New American Writing, the Harvard Review, the Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Passages North, Nimrod, and many other magazines. She has published essays in Agni, the Gettysburg Review, the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Iowa Review, the Literary Review, the Kenyon Review, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly, associate editor-in-chief at Tupelo Press, and a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly.