Kristen Gallagher was born and grew up in Philadelphia, PA. She received her B.A. from University of Pennsylvania in 1991 and received her Ph.D. from the SUNY Buffalo Poetics Program in 2005. In 1995, she was a founding member of The Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. From 2000-2005, she was the editor of Rust Talks, a Buffalo-area reading and discussion series and newsletter for poetry. She is currently editor of Handwritten Press (poetry chapbooks), and WIG Journal of the Arts. Her on-going poetry project No Goal has been published in several chapbook installments. In addition to Basic Writing and Composition, she teaches ENN 198: Creative Writing, Liberal Arts 200: Haunted Media, ENG 270: Poetry, and ENG 102: Introduction to Literature.