Kristina Marie Darling is the author of 34 books, including Dark Horse and In the Room of Persistent Sorry. She currently serves as editor-in-chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly, a staff blogger at The Kenyon Review, and a freelance book critic at The New York Times Book Review. Kristina has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry at Yaddo. In 2019, she was named to the U.S. Fulbright Commission’s roster of Senior Specialists.