Kristina Marie Darling, author & editor

Kristina Marie Darling is a poet, essayist, and critic.  She holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo, as well as terminal degrees in writing from Columbia University in the City of New York and New York University’s Paris Writing Program.

A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Darling is the author of forty books, which include Look to Your Left:  A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, available from the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Akron Press; Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women’s Poetry, released from Bloomsbury Publishing; Collaborative Poetry in the New Century, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing; Silence in Contemporary Poetry, which will be published in hardcover by Clemson University Press in the United States and Liverpool University Press in the United Kingdom; Silent Refusal:  Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing, just launched from Black Ocean; Daylight Has Already Come:  Selected Poems 2014 – 2020, which was published by Black Lawrence Press; Angel of the North, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; two career retrospectives, also forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; Je Suis L’Autre:  Essays & Interrogations, which launched from C&R Press and was named one of the “Best Books of 2017” by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE:  Poems, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and is also available from C&R Press.