Crista Reid is a somatic therapist, artist, and permission-giver. She weaves the art of communication, creative expression, sensuality, archetype, and movement as pathways to aliveness. A life-long Coloradoan, she is often found meandering in the mountains with her beloved hound dog, flowing on the dance floor, or moonlighting as a typewriter poet.
Proximity to Naropa University's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics sparked Crista to integrate her poetic expression with the sensual immediacy of embodied awareness. Her poetry has been featured in Inverted Syntax Press’ Fissured Tongue Vol VI (2025), “Ouch! Collective Vol. 2” (2023), and at East Window Gallery, in the collection “DISGUST: unhealthy practices” (2022). Snake Woman Poems (dancing girl press, 2026) is her first chapbook.