Kristen Cosby is a freelance writer, editor, and educator.  Her writing has received support from the Jan Michalski Foundation (Switzerland), Can Serrat (Spain), the Corporation of Yaddo (USA), the MacDowell Artist Colony (USA), and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (USA), and garnered the Normal Prize in Nonfiction and a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. Previous works have appeared in The Normal School, The Normal School Online, Kenyon Review Online, Alaska Quarterly Review, Fourth Genre, Creative Nonfiction, Pitt Med Magazine, Proto, Lodestars, and have been anthologized in The Pleasure Principle, The Moment, and The Spirit of Disruption.

For much of her childhood, Kristen drifted off the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire aboard a thirty-nine-foot sailboat with her parents, brother, and dog.  She has lived as an expat in Budapest, Hungary, and a hermit in Maine. A graduate of the University of New Hampshire and the MFA program at the University of Pittsburgh, she now lives and works in San Francisco.