Kristin Janae Steele

Kristin Janae Steele’s creative nonfiction most recently appeared in Still: The Journal, where she was selected by Jason Howard as the 2014 Creative Nonfiction Contest Winner. A native of central Appalachia, she currently lives in Huntington, West Virginia and is a faculty member in the English Department at Marshall University where she teaches courses in creative writing, Appalachian literature, and composition. She received her MFA in creative writing from The New School in New York City. She currently is working on memoir about living with scoliosis. Her current soundtrack for writing is Tyler Childer’s album "Purgatory.”