Lindquist, Kristen ( - )

Genre: Poetry

Poet and essayist Kristen Lindquist is a Maine native currently living in Camden, Maine. She attended Middlebury College and received an MFA from the University of Oregon. She has taught various writing and haiku workshops, as well as for the Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth, and has been a board member of the Live Poets Society. Her writing has been published in such venues as the Maine Times, Feminist Times, Cafe Review, Bangor Daily News, Split Rock Review, and Down East Magazine, as well as various haiku journals. She writes a regular nature column for Penobscot Bay Pilot, and maintains a daily haiku blog, Book of Days. Prizes she has been awarded include the 1992 Bread Loaf Poetry Prize, the 2001 Red Fox Award, and the Postmark Poetry Prize in 2014. Her book Transportation was a finalist for a Maine Literary Award in 2012.

Bibliography

• Invocation to the birds, part of the boxed series Walking to Windward: Poets of New England (2001)
• Bald and ragged mountains : the poetry of place (2006)
• Transportation (2011)
• Tourists in the Known World: New & Selected Poems (2017)