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Crista Siglin (she/they) moved to Berlin in 2017 after having grown up (as much as she could manage) in the Midwestern United States. She was awarded a BFA in Painting and Creative Writing from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2015. Her work varies in medium — oscillating between painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, assemblage, and poetry. She explores the body and the mind’s relationship to environment, trauma, time, and phantasmagoria. She enjoys chasing ghosts, playing with other people’s food, and making her way slowly but surely through the Criterion Collection with her cat, Apollo.

 

Some places Siglin has shown visual work are: the Dodge Painting Gallery, Vacant Farm, Green Lady Gallery, Night Blooms Darkroom and Bookstore, H&R Block ArtSpace, the LUMA Westbau museum (Zürich), and has had a solo show at RETRAMP Gallery Berlin. Her poetry has been published in Sprung Formal, KCAI’s Compendium, Not Sorry Zine, Retrograde Craft, Likewise Magazine, PARATAXE, Bridge, Domicilium, Bear Review, and the Poetry Foundation's online essay archive.

 

Siglin released her first book of poetry, Fleeting, Sacred with Spartan Press in 2015. Her second book of poetry, Unpleasable Nature, was released in July of 2020 by Vegetarian Alcoholic Press.

 

Crista served as poetry editor for SAND Journal Berlin from 2018 to 2023. She began Poetry As__A Workshop in 2019, and continues to run it today. She is also currently running workshops with The Reader Berlin, and is an organiser/founder of the experimental event series AKIMBO Berlin.