Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of two nonfiction books: A Calendar Is a Snakeskin (Autofocus Books, 2023) and Curing Season: Artifacts (West Virginia University Press, 2022).
Kristine’s work has been supported by an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Nebraska Arts Council and a residency from Art at Cedar Point Biological Station, twice named Notable in Best American Essays, received the Rafael Torch Award from Crab Orchard Review, won the Sundog Lit Collaboration Contest, and has appeared in print and online at DIAGRAM, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and Hunger Mountain, among others. Kristine is the director and publisher of Split/Lip Press. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the suburban prairie, Kristine makes her home outside Omaha, Nebraska.
Cancer sun, Aquarius moon. Ask her where she’s “from” and she will spread out the maps.
email Kristine: kristine at kristinelangleymahler dot com
Twitter/Bluesky: @suburbanprairie
Kristine Langley Mahler 