The Painted Forest
WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY PRESS, Available now
In this often-surprising book of essays, Krista Eastman explores the myths we make about who we are and where we’re from.
Recent Work
“Picture Show” (essay), New Letters, Summer/Fall 2025
“Pionier” (essay), Fourth Genre, Fall 2024
“School Children” (essay), New Letters, Winter/Spring 2024
“On Leave” (essay), Cincinnati Review (miCRo series), Fall 2021
“Regina” (fiction), Amy Cutler: A Narrative Thread, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue), January 2021
“Ancient Inland Sea” (essay), Conjunctions, “Earth Elegies,” Fall 2019
Interviews/Readings
Reading for the Frostburg Center for Literary Arts, March 9, 2021
“Putting off-the-map oddities at the center of the universe: An interview with Krista Eastman,” Booktimist, West Virginia University Press, September 2019