Crista Siglin (they/them) is from Greenfield, Iowa, in the Midwestern United States. They studied painting and creative writing at the Kansas City Art Institute. Based in Berlin since 2017; their work moves through multiple visual forms as well as poetry, often exploring the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria.

 

Siglin served as a poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin, currently runs Poetry As__A Workshop, is a mentor for The Reader, and is a founder and organizer for the experimental event series AKIMBO.

 

Their written and visual works have been published in a variety of places; Bear Review, Domicilium, FU Review, WWBL, PARATAXE, the Poetry Foundation’s essay archive, among others. They have exhibited at the Vulpes Bastille, the LUMA Westbau Museum, Retramp Gallery, Galerie And, among others. They have performed for the Poetry Foundation, the Berlin Poesie Festival, and the Common Sense Reading Series and more. Click here for full CV. 

 

Most importantly they are a familiar to their cat, Apollo.