Kristina Marie Darling is a poet, essayist, and critic. She holds a doctorate from the Poetics Program at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo, as well as an M.F.A. from New York University. An editor, critic, and publisher, she serves as Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, an opinion columnist at The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing writer at Publishers Weekly, a staff blogger at The Kenyon Review, and a freelance book critic at The New York Times Book Review. Dr. Darling has also held staff positions at Gulf Coast, The Best American Poetry, and Black Ocean, where she worked as a book publicist and grants specialist. As an emerging curator, Dr. Darling received funding for her editorial projects from the McNulty Endowed Chair, the David Gray Endowed Chair, and the English Department at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo. More recently, she was honored with an award for magazine editing, which was jointly administered by the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses and the Amazon Literary Partnership.