Kristina Erny (she/her) is a third culture person who was raised in Seoul and is always homesick for somewhere. She is a poet, a visual artist, a teacher, a wife, a mother, and a foreigner.
She has experience facilitating writing workshops with elementary, middle years, and high school students as well as university and adult groups.
Currently, she teaches literature and creative writing to international secondary students in Shanghai, China where she lives with her family.
She's lived and taught in Indiana, Sierra Leone, Arizona, South Korea, China, and Kentucky. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona.
Her work has been the recipient of the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award and the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky), and her manuscript Wax of What's Left has been a finalist or semi-finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award, the Ahsahta Sawtooth Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Award, Slope Editions Poetry Prize, Anhinga Robert Dana Poetry Prize, Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, and the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Award. Her chapbook, Alien Mother, was a semi-finalist for Button Poetry's Chapbook Contest. In December of 2023 her debut collection of poetry, ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS, will be published with Solum Literary Press.
She'd love to hear from you.
She has experience facilitating writing workshops with elementary, middle years, and high school students as well as university and adult groups.
Currently, she teaches literature and creative writing to international secondary students in Shanghai, China where she lives with her family.
She's lived and taught in Indiana, Sierra Leone, Arizona, South Korea, China, and Kentucky. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona.
Her work has been the recipient of the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award and the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize (chosen by Ilya Kaminsky), and her manuscript Wax of What's Left has been a finalist or semi-finalist for the Noemi Press Book Award, the Ahsahta Sawtooth Poetry Prize, the Colorado Prize for Poetry, Persea Books Lexi Rudnitsky Poetry Award, Slope Editions Poetry Prize, Anhinga Robert Dana Poetry Prize, Tupelo Press Dorset Prize, and the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Award. Her chapbook, Alien Mother, was a semi-finalist for Button Poetry's Chapbook Contest. In December of 2023 her debut collection of poetry, ELIJAH FED BY RAVENS, will be published with Solum Literary Press.
She'd love to hear from you.