Krystle May Statler
Poet | Artist | Designer
Krystle May Statler (she/her) is a Black-multiracial poet, artist & digital designer currently living in Portland, OR with her partner, Kevin and array of plant-babies. She received an MFA in Writing from Otis College of Art & Design in 2017. As of September 2022, Krystle is in the Poetry Portfolio Program at Portland's Independent Publishing Resource Center (IPRC).
Her works are featured in Sixfold, Beyond Words Literary Magazine (Issue 34), Poetry from Instructions, poetry.onl, 1455's Movable Type Issue 7 & 9, The Santa Fe Writers Project Quarterly, and Cultural Weekly.
More of her poetry will soon be featured in Fourteen Hills (Issue 29), Suburbia Journal (Issue VI), Sepia Quarterly (Melancholy Issue) 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 anti-memoir, Doing Time: Letters to His Daughter, was long-listed for the Disquiet International Literary Program prize and she's been invited to attend the 11th Annual Program in Lisbon, Portugal, June 2023.
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Poetry Winter 2022 Issue where three of my poems are featured (I placed second in the poetry contest!) 🤸🏽♀️✨