About
Krista Eastman is the author of The Painted Forest, which was named one of the best literary nonfiction debuts of 2019 by Poets & Writers. The Painted Forest also won the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Nonfiction Book Award and an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association.
Her essays have appeared in journals such as Conjunctions, Fourth Genre, The Georgia Review, and Kenyon Review and been named Notable in Best American Essays.
She was born and raised in the Driftless hills of Wisconsin. After living in Senegal, France, Antarctica, and the eastern U.S., she returned to Wisconsin where she lives with her partner and son.
She lurks on Bluesky.