Kristen Gentry

Biography

Kristen Gentry is the author of Mama Said, longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. She received her M.F.A. from Indiana University. Her award-winning fiction has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appeared in Electric Literature, Crab Orchard Review, and other journals.

She is a VONA and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alumna, a member of the inaugural Poets & Writers publicity incubator for debut writers, and opinion editor at The Courier-Journal. She lives and writes in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.

Learn more at Kristen Gentry’s official website.