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 an M.F.A. from New York University. Dr. Darling is the author of thirty-nine books, which include Look to Your Left: A Feminist Poetics of Spectacle, forthcoming 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, newly released from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group; Collaborative Poetry in the New Century, forthcoming from Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group; 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 will be published by Black Lawrence Press; Angel of the North, forthcoming from Salmon Poetry; two career retrospectives, also 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.