Kristin Czarnecki is the author of The First Kristin: The Story of a Naming (Main Street Rag), a memoir about being named after a deceased sibling. She has published creative nonfiction and poetry in a variety of venues, including Peatsmoke: A Literary Journal, The Porch, The Smart Set, Clementine Unbound, and Virginia Woolf Miscellany. After many years as an English professor, she made some changes and is now Gallery Coordinator at the Rockport Art Association & Museum in Rockport, Massachusetts.