Crystal Gibbins

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Crystal Spring Gibbins is a Canadian American writer, founder/editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press), author of two poetry chapbooks and a full-length poetry collection Now/Here (Holy Cow! Press), winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award for Poetry and runner-up for the Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, selected by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Her work has appeared in several journals and magazines, such as Arc Poetry Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Coffee House Writers Project, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, The Minnesota Review, North American Review, Oyster River Pages, Parenthesis Journal, Prairie Schooner, Verse Daily, and The Writer’s Almanac. Recently, her poems have been anthologized in More in Time: A Tribute to Ted Kooser (U of Nebraska P) and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope (Storey Publishing).

Crystal has taught creative writing, literature, and composition for more than 15 years at several colleges, universities, and art organizations across the Midwest. She holds a PhD in English with concentrations in Creative Writing, 20^th and 21^stCentury American Poetry, and North American Environmental Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, an MFA in Creative Writing and Certificate in Publishing from Minnesota State University Moorhead, and BFA in Creative and Professional Writing from Bemidji State University.

Originally from the Northwest Angle and Islands in Lake of the Woods (Ontario/Minnesota), Crystal now lives near Lake Superior in northern Wisconsin with her husband and son.