A writer and book artist working in both text and image, Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artists book projects, as well as eight full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including SALVAGE (Black Lawrence Press, 2016) and MAJOR CHARACTERS IN MINOR FILMS (Sundress Publications, 2015).

Bowen’s written work has appeared extensively online and in print, including recent appearances in Paper Darts, Occulum Journal , and Hobart. Her hybrid visual/text pieces appear frequently in Tupelo Quarterly . Her poem, “house of strays,“ was included in the American Academy of Poets’ Poem-A-Day: 365 Poems for Every Occasion (2015). Over the years, she has performed and exhibited her work in a number of spaces locally and nationally, including colleges/universities, writing conferences, galleries, festivals, bookstores, bars and cafes. She holds graduate degrees in Literature and Writing from DePaul University (MA) and Columbia College (MFA).

Based in Chicago, she runs dancing girl press & studio and spends much of her time writing, making papery things, and editing a chapbook series devoted to women authors. She currently works in the library of an arts college, where she co-curates The Aesthetics of Research a project devoted to the intersection of libraries and the arts. She is also a member of the Chicago Cryptozoological Society, a collaborative publisher/ public art experiment / resource.

Originally from the wilds of northern Illinois, she currently lives on the far north side in a drafty old art deco building near the lake with a pack of mongrel cats and way too many books.

Her seventh full-length collection, LITTLE APOCALYPSE, is due out from Noctuary Press in 2018. Another collection, SEX & VIOLENCE, Is forthcoming from Black Lawrence in 2020.