Kurt Cole Eidsvig’s work spans poetry, fiction, art criticism, and visual arts. His columns and series have been featured in publications like Big Red & Shiny, ArtsAmerica, SpinRecords, and Examiner.com. His work has also been included in The Boston Globe, Slipstream, Hanging Loose, Poets Reading the News, and Borderlands. Eidsvig has taught art and writing at UMASS Boston, the University of Montana, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and has won a Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, a Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Award, and the Edmund Freeman Award. A graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Montana, he is the author of the books Drowning Girl (Unsolicited Press, 2024), The Simple Art Of Murder (Broadstone Books, 2024), Art Official (Terror House Press, 2023), OxyContin for Breakfast (Main Street Rag, 2023), and Pop x Poetry (KCEMCS, 2021). His visual art is part of numerous commercial and private collections and has been included in solo and group exhibitions. With deep Boston and Montana roots, he lives and works in Key West, Florida.