Kristina Erny

Poet

Shanghai, KY
Kentucky US

Author's Bio

Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and her work has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China, where she teaches at an international school with her partner and their three children. Kristina is the author of Elijah Fed by Ravens (Solum Literary Press).

Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
The Last Milkweed (Tupelo Press, 2024)
Prizes won: 
  • "On the Eve of Our Fourteenth Wedding Anniversary" nominated for Best of the Net 2024
  • "Rats" Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2021
  • Finalist for the Coniston Prize 2021, Radar Poetry
  • "The Mother" Nominated for Pushcart Prize 2019
  • Third Prize Winner, Bright Wings Poetry Contest, Makers and Mystics Podcast, 2019
  • Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Award, chosen by Ilya Kaminsky, 2013, published in TQ1
  • Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, 2011, published in the Los Angeles Review

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, At Risk Youth, Teachers, Teenagers
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Lexington , KY
Kentucky
Raised in: 
Seoul
South Korea
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Last update: Feb 05, 2024