Kris Bigalk

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KIMG_0580ris Bigalk (pronounced BEE-yahk) is a writer and professor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her second collection of poetry, Enough, was released in the fall of 2019 from NYQ Books, and was a finalist in the Housatonic Book Award competition; her first collection, Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, was released in 2012 from NYQ Books. Bigalk has published poetry in many literary magazines and anthologies, and also regularly publishes creative nonfiction and reviews. She has won two Minnesota State Arts Board Individual Artist grants in poetry.

 Kris founded and now directs the groundbreaking AFA in Creative Writing program at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, Minnesota. During the 2022-23 school year, Kris is assisting in the coordination of Write Like Us,  which brings equity-based creative writing programming to five Twin Cities community colleges. Since 2017, she has served on the Board of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs, chairing several committees and currently serving as Secretary.
In January of 2023, Kris assisted Trio House Press in its move to Minnesota, and was installed as the Executive Director of the press. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her family.

The background image for this site (also the cover image for Enough) and the author photo above are by Elizabeth Barnwell.