Crystal Spring Gibbins

Crystal is a Canadian American writer of Métis (Ojibwe/Cree/Scotch) descent from the Northwest Angle and Islands in Lake of the Woods (Minnesota and Ontario). She is the founder/editor of Split Rock Review and Split Rock Press, editor of the anthology Rewilding: Poems for the Environment (Flexible Press), and author of Now/Here (Holy Cow! Press), winner of the 2017 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award in Poetry and runner-up for the 2017 Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award from the Council for Wisconsin Writers, selected by Sean Thomas Dougherty.

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

Her poetry and comics appear in Arc Poetry Magazine, Cincinnati Review, Coffee House Press Writers Project, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Hobart, The Minnesota Review, North American Review, Parenthesis Journal, Verse Daily, The Writer’s Almanac, and elsewhere. She is the recipient of grants from the Canadian Council for the Arts, Minnesota State Arts Board, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and Chequamegon Bay Arts Council.

Crystal lives on the south shore of Lake Superior in northwest Wisconsin.