Kris Bigalk's first collection of poetry, Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, is forthcoming from NYQ Books. Her poetry has recently appeared in Silk Road, The Water~Stone Review, the cream city review, Pif, The New York Quarterly, and other magazines. She is the past President of the Two-Year College Caucus of AWP. She directs the creative writing programs at Normandale Community College, and curates the Banfill-Locke Reading Series.

Bare Root Review, Caveat Lector, Cream City Review, Dust & Fire, Forge, Iron Horse Literary Review, Loonfeather, Main Channel Voices, Mankato Poetry Review, Marginalia, Minnetonka Review, Modern English Tanka, New York Quarterly, Pank, Rag Mag, Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal, Water~Stone Review