About the Author

Kris Bigalk is a poet and educator. Her poems have appeared in the New York Quarterly, the cream city review, Water Stone Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Silk Road, and other literary magazines; her awards include a Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Artist Grant in Poetry and a residency at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts. Bigalk designed and now directs the groundbreaking creative writing program at Normandale Community College. She lives in Minnetonka, Minnesota, with her husband and children.