Krysten Hill

Krysten Hill received her MFA in poetry from UMass Boston where she currently teaches. Her work can be found in apt, The Baltimore Review, B O D Y, Boiler Magazine, Up the Staircase Quarterly, Word Riot, Muzzle, PANK, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Winter Tangerine Review and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the 2016 St. Botolph Club Foundation Emerging Artist Award. Her chapbook, How Her Spirit Got Out, received the 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize. For more, please visit www.krystenhill.com. “Are You a Self-Identified Black Woman” Copyright @ 2016 by Krysten Hill. From How Her Spirit Got Out. Published by Aforementioned Productions. Used by permission.