Krystle's the author of Prayer for Relief, released on the fifth deathiversary of her brother’s murder by the Inglewood Police Department. Prayer for Relief has since won first place in both the nonfiction category of relationships–family for The Book Fest Awards and the grief category for the International Impact Book Awards.
In July 2026, she was a participant in the McCormack Writing Center Oregon Summer Workshop (fka Tin House) nonfiction cohort, led by Wendy C. Ortiz.
In June 2025, she completed the Certificate Training in Community Storytelling, hosted by The Hearth.
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.
Krystle's poetic-visual hybrid, Losing Blood, was a finalist for the 2022 CRAFT Hybrid Writing Contest & the 2021 CAAPP Book Prize.
READINGS / PERFORMANCES
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
July 16, 2026
McCormack Writing Center (MWC)
Oregon Summer Workshop
Reading remnants of, tisiphone, abbreviated grief, and obituary after 1,095 days
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
Reading The Bountiful, In It, and Processed Family
Reading a gun's colloquial existence / brother's big three / the sibling's prayer
Reading Rejected Poems w the Inaugural IPRC's Chapbook Design Program class
December 6, 2025
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA)
Reading Rejected Poems w the Inaugural IPRC's Chapbook Design Program class
Reading Rejected Poems w the Inaugural IPRC's Chapbook Design Program class
Reading Rejected Poems w the Inaugural IPRC's Chapbook Design Program class
Portals Podcast w The Grief House Co-Founders
Reading Rejected Poems w the Inaugural IPRC's Chapbook Design Program class
Portals Podcast w The Grief House Co-Founders
Bearing Witness at Up Up Books
Prayer for Relief Book Release Party
Bearing Witness at Up Up Books
Podcast Interview w Amanda Eke
Prayer for Relief Book Release Party
Bearing Witness at Up Up Books
May 12, 2024
The Poet Speaks Podcast w Amanda Eke
Prayer for Relief Book Release Party
Prayer for Relief Book Release Party
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
March 30, 2024
The Pathfinder Network's Resilience & Recovery Project
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
Reading Four Poems in Honor of BJ's Four-year Deathiversary
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
Reading Four Poems in Honor of BJ's Four-year Deathiversary
Reading excerpts from Losing Blood
Reading Three Poems at the IPRC Portfolio Program Graduation
Reading Four Poems in Honor of BJ's Four-year Deathiversary
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
1455's Movable Type Issue No. 9: Connection | Live Reading
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
Monday Night Writes Launch Party
1455's 4th Annual Summer Festival: Inspiration Information III: Black Women Poets
The Literary Cypher: Cypher XIV Sponsored by Obsidian Pen Publishing
January 24, 2022
The Literary Cypher: Cypher XIV Sponsored by Obsidian Pen Publishing
The Literary Cypher: Cypher XIV Sponsored by Obsidian Pen Publishing
1455's 3rd Annual Summer Fest: Inspiration Information: Black Women Poets
Virtual Choreopoem Table Reading: "How To Exterminate the Black Woman" by Monica Prince
Cast as Loss
April 30, 2021