Kristina Erny is a third-culture poet who grew up in South Korea. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona and her work has been the recipient of the Tupelo Quarterly Inaugural Poetry Prize and the Ruskin Art Club Poetry Award, as well as a finalist for the Coniston Prize. Her poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Yemassee, Blackbird, and Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. She currently lives and works in Shanghai, China, where she teaches at an international school with her partner and their three children. Kristina is the author of Elijah Fed by Ravens (Solum Literary Press).