Kristine S. Ervin

2025 Jim & Linda Burke Visiting Scholar

 

Kristine S. Ervin grew up in a suburb of Oklahoma City, and now teaches creative writing at West Chester University, where she is an associate professor. She holds an MFA in Poetry from New York University and a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature, with a focus in nonfiction, from the University of Houston.

 

Her memoir Rabbit Heart, about her mother’s murder, gendered violence, and unrelenting grief, was published in 2024 by Counterpoint Press, and her essays have appeared in Today.com, Literary Hub, Fourth Genre, Crimereads, Crab Orchard Review, Brevity, Passages North, and Silk Road. Her essay "Cleaving To," was named a notable essay in the Best American Essays 2013. 

 

During her time at the Doel Reed Center in Taos, Dr. Ervin will interact with students enrolled in ENG 4630: Advanced Fiction Writing / ENGL 5730: Seminar in Fiction Writing, instructed by Aimee Parkinson, OSU Professor of Creative Writing and 2024 Doel Reed Center Hargis Fellow. Later this fall, Dr. Ervin will spend a few days on the OSU campus. Her visit will include a public community lecture. Date and time for the lecture are TBA.