Poet, playwright, and actor Kristiana Colón earned a BA at the University of Chicago and an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her poems explore romantic and personal transformation, often making use of unconventional punctuation and capitalization. The author of the chapbookpieces of shedu (2008), Colón has also performed on HBO’s Def Poetry Jam. Her honors include a Pushcart Prize nomination, and her work has been included in Dzanc Books’ Best of the Web 2010 and the anthologies Not a Muse: The Inner Lives of Women, a World Poetry Anthology (2009) and Chorus: A Literary (Re)Mixtape (2012).
Colón has taught at Chicago State University, Malcolm X College, and Tribeca Flashpoint Academy. Assistant editor for the online literary journal Muzzle and artistic associate for the theater company Teatro Luna, she lives in Chicago.
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Rhymes: Nina Simone, "Blue Prelude," Bone Thugs-n-Harmony ft. 2Pac, "Thug Luv," and Donnie Trumpet and The Social Experiment, "Sunday Candy"