Cristalle Smith

Biography

Cristalle Smith is an award-winning poet and creative nonfiction writer and teaches English and creative writing. She studies critical/creative integration, domestic violence, lyric inquiry, confessional writing, poetic methodologies, CanLit, the Harlem Renaissance, 20th Century American poetry, Indigenous Studies, hybridization, and experimental forms. Cristalle teaches composition, literary analysis, and creative writing.

Cristalle earned a SSHRC in both her MFA and PhD programs for her research in domestic violence and creative writing. Her hybridized poetry book, Invisible Lives, is out in the Brave & Brilliant Series at University of Calgary Press. You can find Cristalle's writing in ARC Poetry Magazine, Room Magazine, CV2, The Maynard and elsewhere.

Education

• Ph.D. (English Creative Writing), University of Calgary in-progress
• M.F.A. (Creative Writing), University of British Columbia Okanagan
• B.A. (Indigenous Studies), University of British Columbia Okanagan
• B.G.S. (Emphasis in Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Idaho