Kristina Marie Darling is the author of thirty-six books. An expert consultant with the U.S. Fulbright Commission, and the recipient of grants from the Elizabeth George Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship to live and work in Spain; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; six residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Faber Residency in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, which she received on two separate occasions; an artist-in-residence position with the Andorran Ministry of Culture; an artist-in-residence position at the Florence School of Fine Arts; a four-month appointment at Scuola Internazionale de Grafica in Venice; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions. Beginning in the fall of 2022, Dr. Darling will serve as Publisher-in-Residence at the American University of Rome.

Praise

Her prose is lovely, graceful, and evocative. . . . Darling is making a name for herself with these inventive collections; whenever I see her name on a book, I know it will be something new and different and enjoyable.

—Bookslut