A writer and book artist working in both text and image, Kristy Bowen creates a regular series of chapbook, zine, and artist book projects. She is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry/prose/hybrid work, including the recent SEX & VIOLENCE (Black Lawrence Press, 2020), and FEED (dancing girl press & studio, 2021).

Bowen’s written work has appeared online and in print, including recent publications in Midway Journal and Typehouse. Her hybrid visual/text pieces appear frequently in Tupelo Quarterly. She has performed and exhibited her work in a number of spaces locally and nationally. She earned a BA English and Theatre Arts from Rockford College, an MA in Literature and Writing from DePaul University, and an MFA from Columbia College.

Based in Chicago, she runs dancing girl press & studio and spends much of her time writing, making papery things, creating strange video poems, and editing a chapbook series devoted to women authors. She also founded and edited wicked alice, an online lit zine, from 2001 to 2018. She currently works in the library of an arts college, where she co-curates The Aesthetics of Research, a project devoted to the intersection of libraries and creative practice. She is also a member of the Chicago Cryptozoological Society, a collaborative publisher, public art experiment, and resource.

Originally from northern Illinois, she lives in Chicago.