Kristine Slentz, a queer poet, reads from her new book, gets wasted on ice cream, and attends Indy Pride.
Author Archives: Kristine Esser Slentz
Kristine Esser Slentz is a Maltese descendent, queer, cult escapee, and author of woman, depose (FlowerSong Press 2021, 2024). She grew up in both northwest Indiana and the Chicagoland area — what her father calls the “bottom of the blue-collar.” After receiving her GED, she completed her undergraduate degree at Purdue University, double-majoring in English literature and creative writing, before earning a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing (poetry) from City College of New York (CCNY). Kristine is a Pushcart Prize nominee, finalist in the Glass Poetry Chapbook and F(r)iction's Flash Fiction Contests, recipient of a CCNY English Department Teacher-Writer Award, a City Artist Corps Grant, and former Rifkind Fellow and Poets Afloat resident. She is the co-founder and organizer/host of the monthly experimental artist series, Adverse Abstraction, in New York City's East Village. You can follow Kristine’s art on her substack, Carnations & Car Crashes.