Kristina Van Sant has published poems in Atlanta Review, The Journal of New Jersey Poets, Talking River Review, and elsewhere, and has work forthcoming in the Wild Women issue of TulipTree Review. Born and raised in southern New Jersey, she moved to New York to attend the graduate writing program at Sarah Lawrence College, where she obtained her MFA. She now lives in central New Jersey, and is currently employed as a grant writer at a nonprofit zoological society, where peacocks regularly saunter past her door.