Kristin Bock holds an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst where she teaches. Her first collection, Cloisters, won Tupelo Press’s First Book Award and the da Vinci Eye Award.  She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellow, and her poems have appeared in many journals, including The Black Warrior Review, Columbia, Crazyhorse, FENCE, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, and VERSE. She lives in Western, MA with her husband, artist Geoffrey Kostecki, and together they restore liturgical art.