Sheila-Na-Gig Editions to publish a poetry collection by Kersten Christianson of Sitka, Alaska

Hello, Friends — I’m happy to announce that Sheila-Na-Gig Editions will publish Kersten Christianson’s poetry collection Curating the House of Nostalgia in the new year. Living in Sitka, Alaska, Kersten holds an MFA in Creative Writing (University of Alaska Anchorage) and is the author of Something Yet to Be Named (Aldrich Press, 2017). Kersten is the poetry editor of the quarterly journal Alaska Women Speak. She is a frequent contributor to Sheila-Na-Gig online; read her work at the following links:

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I co-founded the small press poetry magazine Sheila-Na-Gig in California in 1990. I ran the press for 10 years, producing 14 print copies of the journal. I now hold a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. I am currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where I teach courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. My poetry, creative nonfiction, and critical essays have appeared, or are forthcoming, in The Brock Review, Proteus, Rattle, Spillway, and the critical anthologies, The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King’s Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror.

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