Krystle May Statler

Krystle May Statler (she/her) is a Black-multiracial artist and designer, holding an MFA from Otis College of Art & Design. She is the author of Prayer for Relief which was recently awarded an International Impact Book Award in the Grief category.

In 2023, she graduated from the IPRC’s Poetry Portfolio Program and her anti-memoir, Doing Time: Letters to His Daughter, was long listed for the Disquiet International Literary Program prize where she received a partial scholarship to attend the 11th Annual Program in Lisbon, Portugal.

Her works are featured in Advice to 9th Graders, Epiphany Magazine, Fugue Journal, Fourteen Hills, Sixfold, Beyond Words Literary Magazine, Poetry from Instructions, poetry.onl, 1455's Movable Type Issue 7 & 9, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, Cultural Weekly. More of her poetry forthcoming in Suburbia Journal, Sepia Quarterly and others. Krystle's debut poetic-visual hybrid, Losing Blood, was a finalist for the 2022 CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest & the 2021 CAAPP Book Prize. 

Her design experience is diverse, with an emphasis on poetry and hybridity while also designing logos, marketing materials, children’s books, and more. Over the last eight years, she's worked as a freelance designer for self-publishing clients, the Book Production Manager for World Stage Press, a graphic designer for the Community Literature Initiative, and a typesetting assistant for Otis Books/Seismicity Editions. Krystle's latest design adventure is being the in-house interior and cover designer for Mama’s Kitchen Press.

When she’s not artisting or designing books, Krystle can be found volunteering with the Portland Grief House as the Fundraising Board Chair and Epiphany Magazine as a poetry reader, working as the Director of Operations at The Pathfinder Network, or nurturing life in Portland, Oregon with her partner Kevin, their plant babies, and oodles of loved ones.