About Dr. Darling

Kristina Marie Darling is a poet, essayist, and critic. She holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo, as well as terminal degrees in writing from Columbia University in the City of New York and New York University's Paris Writing Program.

A former Visiting Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Dr. Darling is the author of forty books, which include Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, available from the Akron Series in Contemporary Poetics at the University of Akron Press; Stylistic Innovation, Conscious Experience, and the Self in Modernist Women's Poetry, released from Bloomsbury Publishing; Collaborative Poetry in the New Century, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing; Silence in Contemporary Poetry, which will be published in hardcover by Clemson University Press in the United States and Liverpool University Press in the United Kingdom; Silent Refusal: Essays on Contemporary Feminist Writing, just launched from Black Ocean; Daylight Has Already Come: Selected Poems 2014–2020, which was published by Black Lawrence Press; Angel of the North, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; Je Suis L'Autre: Essays & Interrogations, which launched from C&R Press and was named one of the "Best Books of 2017" by The Brooklyn Rail; and DARK HORSE: Poems, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and is also available from C&R Press.

Her hybrid collaboration with Carol Guess was launched in 2022 from Persea Books. Penguin Random House Canada also published a Canadian edition. Selections from this collaborative work are currently being set to music by acclaimed composer Dale Trumbore and will be performed in several cities across the country thanks to a grant from Chamber Music America through their Classical Commissioning Program, with additional generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In 2022, Dr. Darling also signed a multi-book deal, in which her out-of-print titles will be reissued by Dzanc Books.

Dr. Darling's most recent poems appear in The Harvard Review, Poetry International, New American Writing, Nimrod, Passages North, The Mid-American Review, and on the Academy of American Poets' website, Poets.org. Dr. Darling has published essays in The New York Times, Poets & Writers, The Kenyon Review, The American Poetry Review, Lit Hub, The Millions, Agni, Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, and Gulf Coast.

Her work has been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry; a Fundación Valparaíso fellowship; a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, funded by the Heinz Foundation; an artist-in-residence position at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris; eleven juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome; two grants from the Whiting Foundation; a Morris Fellowship in the Arts; a Faber Residency in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; and the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets, which she received on three separate occasions; among many other awards and honors.

An editor, critic, and publisher, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly. She is the founder of Penelope Coaching & Consulting, an international firm specializing in book publicity, professional development coaching, and speaking engagements.

Dr. Darling is represented by Mark Falkin of Falkin Literary and Marilyn Allen of the Allen O'Shea Literary Agency for book-length nonfiction. For speaking engagements, she is represented by Jean Jay of the Ovation Agency.

Born and raised in the American Midwest, she now divides her time between Greece, Croatia, and the Amalfi coast.