Open House

Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over thirty volumes of poetry, essays, and fiction. An expert consultant with the United States Fulbright Commission and a twice-awarded Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Darling’s work has also been recognized with three residencies at Yaddo, where she has held the Martha Walsh Pulver Residency for a Poet and the Howard Moss Residency in Poetry, a 2024 Villa Lena Foundation Fellowship, a 2024 Civita Institute Fellowship, and eleven juried residencies at the American Academy in Rome. She has held academic appointments at Universidade do Porto, the European Law and Governance School, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, the American Research Center in Sofia, and the Leysin American School in Switzerland. A prolific public speaker with the Ovation Agency, Dr. Darling has also lectured at Yale University, the American University in Rome, Stanford University, where she leads a workshop in professional empowerment through their Continuing Studies Division, the New School, the University of Cyprus, The Los Angeles Review of Books Publishing Workshop, Cedar Crest College’s Pan-European MFA Program, and Webster University’s Geneva, Switzerland Campus, where she leads a biannual writing workshop for diplomats. Additionally, Dr. Darling has served on fellowship juries for the United States Fulbright Commission, the Corporation of Yaddo, the Millay Colony for the Arts, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, and many other awards in the United States and abroad. Born and raised in the American Midwest, she now divides her time between Greece, Alicante, and the Amalfi Coast.

"This is an exciting collection of essays aimed at teachers, students and writers of poetry in general who want to broaden their connection with others—other practitioners, other teachers, others who find themselves minorities in the classroom. Collaboration is explored here in many of its forms—collaboration between writers, of course, but also publishing as collaboration, teaching as collaboration, even working towards social justice as collaboration.Besides being inspiring, these essays provide actual helpful advice and models of how to create community through collaboration—actual assignments you can do, and use in classrooms. Editor and contributor Kristina Marie Darling has put together a useful, timely and uplifting call to reach out to others, on the page and in the academy."