Kristin Collier is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program. She has been a recipient of Minnesota State Arts Board funding, a Jack Hazard fellowship, and a Yaddo artist residency. Her writing has been published with Oprah Daily, Fourth Genre and Longreads and was recently anthologized in Coffee House Press’s American Precariat. She is an organizer with the Debt Collective and a visiting scholar and TREC community engagement fellow at Metro State University. Kristin lives with her family in Minneapolis.