A writer and artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of in the bird museum (Dusie, 2008) and the fever almanac (Ghost Road Press, 2006) as well as several chapbook projects. Her work has appeared in electronic and print journals like Cranky, DIAGRAM, Agni, Rhino, Slipstream, Backwards City, Caffeine Destiny, and others.

Bowen is the editor of the online poetry zine, wicked alice, and founder of dancing girl press & studio, which publishes chapbooks by female poets and offers a selection of book, paper, ephemera, and vintage-inspired arts & crafts in its online shop, dulcet.

Raised in the wilds of northern Illinois, she possesses an undergraduate degree in English and Theater Arts from Rockford College, as well as an M.A. in Literature from DePaul University, with an emphasis in women's writing and feminist criticism. In 2007, she completed her MFA studies in Poetry at Columbia College.

Her writing has been nominated multiple times for a Pushcart Prize and in 2004, was selected as first place winner in the Poetry Center of Chicago's Annual Juried Reading.

Unofficially, her passions include Joseph Cornell, victoriana, carnivals/sideshows, horror films, diagramatic things, archives, old scientific & botanical, illustrations, architectural drawings, postcards, and all things paper. She lives and writes in Chicago in a big old art deco building near the lake, where she funds her writing and other (mis)adventures by working in the library of an arts college.