Kristine Esser Slentz is the author of the poetic artist book EXHIBIT: an amended woman, depose with FlowerSong Press 2021, 2024, and a forthcoming collection, face-to-faces, with Thirty West Publishing House in spring 2026. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in TriQuartly, Five Points, TEDx Salon, and more. She is the co-founder and organizer/host of the monthly experimental artist series, Adverse Abstraction, in New York City's East Village. You can follow Kristine’s art on her substack, Carnations & Car Crashes.