A writer and book artist working in both text and image, Kristy Bowen is the author of a number of chapbook, zine, and artist book projects, as well as several full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including the recent SEX & VIOLENCE (Black Lawrence, 2020) and the forthcoming FEED (dancing girl press & studio, 2021).
Bowen’s written work has appeared online and in print, including recent publications in
Midway Journal and
Typehouse. Her hybrid visual/text pieces appear frequently in
Tupelo Quarterly . A 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. She studied English and Theatre Arts at Rockford College, as well as 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 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.