Kristina Marie Darling is the author of twenty-seven books of poetry, including Ghost / Landscape (with John Gallaher; BlazeVOX Books, 2016) and the forthcoming Dark Horse (C&R Press, 2017). Her awards include three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet, as well as a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship and two residencies at the American Academy in Rome. She is the recipient of grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. Her poems have appeared in New American Writing, The Mid-American Review, Poetry International, Passages North, Nimrod, and elsewhere. She has published essays in The Gettysburg Review, The Los Angeles Review of Books, AGNI Online, The Iowa Review, The Literary Review, and elsewhere. She is editor-in-chief of Tupelo Quarterly and grants specialist at Black Ocean Press. (updated 10/2016)