Kristen E. Nelson is a queer writer, scholar, teacher, and performer. She is the author of two books of poetry In the Away Time and the length of this gap. She has recently published creative and critical writing in The Georgia Review, Feminist Studies, and Working Titles Journal. Kristen is an instructor of creative writing and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her teaching and research interests include Creative Writing, Divinatory Poetics, Feminist Autotheory, and Witchcraft Studies.