Krysten Hill
photo credit: Jon Beckley
Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence
Pronouns: she / her / hers
Website: https://www.krystenhill.com/
Selected Publications
“How Her Spirit Got Out,” Aforementioned Productions, 2016.- Poems in POETRY Magazine, The Academy of American Poets' Poem-A-Day Series, Painted Bride Quarterly, Rust & Moth, Winter Tangerine, B O D Y, Up the Staircase Quarterly, PANK, Baltimore Review, The Boiler Journal, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, and elsewhere.
- “Are You There Plath? It’s Me” included in “City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems,” 2019.
- Poetry on the MBTA, “City Girls Teach Themselves to Fly,” 2016.
- Interviews in A Mighty Blaze: Poet’s Café with Allison Adair, The Critical Flame: “Conversations: Krysten Hill and Ruby Rose Fox”, Mass Poetry: “June 2017 Massachusetts Poet in the Spotlight.”
Selected Awards and Fellowships
- 2025 SWWIM Writing Residency
- 2023 Vermont Studio Center Residency
- 2020 Mass Cultural Council Poetry Fellowship
- Poet-in-Residence: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, October 31-November 28, 2018
- 2017 Jean Pedrick Chapbook Prize
- 2016 St. Botolph Club Emerging Artist Award-Poetry
Selected Presentations
- The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Porsha Olayiwola Presents: Canon, Canyon, Cannon, 2024.
- Emily Dickinson Museum: Phosphorescence Poetry Reading Series, 2023.
- Boston Book Festival: 2023, 2017.
- WBUR Presents: A Tribute to Mary Oliver, 2019.
- The Boston Center for the Arts Presents: “Know No” Masary Studios, Public Video Art Installation, 2017.
- Gallery Talk: Poetic Responses to Nari Ward, Presenter, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, June 11, 2017.