Kristen Havens is a writer living in Los Angeles. Her fiction and poems have appeared in journals including PANK, Atticus Review, Monkeybicycle, Necessary Fiction, Bending Genres, and Slipstream. She has been a Finalist for the Stephen Dunn Poetry Prize and the Howard Frank Mosher Short Fiction Prize and was nominated for the Robert J. Dau Short Fiction Prize for Emerging Writers. A former marketer for a small press and reader for CRAFT literary magazine, she works as a freelance developmental editor and copywriter. She is currently writing a novel.