Kirsten RianKirsten Rian's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous publications. She has been awarded artist fellowships, grants, and international residencies, leading creative writing workshops both domestically, as well as internationally in locations likepost-war Sierra Leone and refugee relocation centers in Finland, and with human trafficking survivors, using creative writing as a tool for literacy, community, and peacebuilding. She has been a volunteer language facilitator for non-native speakers for 20 years. Her anthology of Sierra Leonean poets and their accounts of the civil war, Kalashnikov in the Sun, was published upon her return from a fellowship in West Africa. She is also a photography curator and multi-disciplinary artist. kirstenrian.com Read More Read Less