KRISTINA MARIE DARLING

Kristina Marie Darling, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, is a first-generation college student and an advocate for women in the arts, higher education and the professions. She is the author of 30 books, including Look to Your Left: The Poetics of Spectacle; Je Suis L’Autre: Essays & Interrogations; and DARK HORSE: Poems. She has lectured on creative writing in such locations as New York University, the Sorbonne Library and the Castle of Otranto.