Chrissy Kolaya
Chrissy Kolaya will be in residence from January through May 2020. She is working
on a novel with the working title "The Second Voyage of Audley Worthington," about
a nineteenth-century naturalist who disappears in the Spice Islands.
Chrissy Kolaya is a poet and fiction writer, author of the science novel Charmed
Particles and two collections of poetry, Any Anxious Body and Other
Possible Lives. Her work has been included in the anthologies New Sudden
Fiction (Norton), Fiction on a Stick (Milkweed Editions), and Stone,
River, Sky: An Anthology of Georgia Poems, as well as in a number of literary
journals.
She has received a Norman Mailer Writers Colony summer scholarship, an Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies fellowship, a Loft Mentor Series Award in Poetry, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Lake Region Arts Council, and the University of Minnesota. As one of the co-founders of the Prairie Gate Literary Festival, she worked to develop the literary arts community in rural western Minnesota. She now teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida.
She has received a Norman Mailer Writers Colony summer scholarship, an Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies fellowship, a Loft Mentor Series Award in Poetry, and grants from the Minnesota State Arts Board, the Lake Region Arts Council, and the University of Minnesota. As one of the co-founders of the Prairie Gate Literary Festival, she worked to develop the literary arts community in rural western Minnesota. She now teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida.