Kristy Bowen lives in Chicago where she writes poems and makes vague attempts at collage and book arts. She is the author of the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) and feign (New Michigan Press, 2007), as well as another project, in the bird museum, forthcoming from Dusie Press Books. She is also the editor of the online lit zine wicked alice and founder of dancing girl press, devoted to publishing work by women writers.

She is obsessed with victoriana, carnivals/sideshows, horror films, Joseph Cornell, archives, old scientific & botanical illustrations, postcards, and all things paper. She writes in order to seduce, to charm. She writes to tell stories (and, at the same time, not to tell them). She writes because words have a power, a resonance that goes beyond mere conveyance of meaning . a shimmer, a hum . how one word rubs against another and produces friction.

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