Swelter (Interactive Press 2003) includes Kristin's first collection of poetry titled 'Inhale'. Poems from her Wetland Sonnets sequence won the 2004 Leichhardt New Media Poetry Prize, and joint second for New Media in the 2004 Newcastle Poetry Prize. Kristin's work appears most recently in papertiger05/06, Famous Reporter, Treci Trg (Serbia), Small Packages 2005 QPF Anthology and on ABC Radio National's Poetica. She recently completed a residency at Varuna via the Macquarie Bank Longlines programme and in 2007 is a tutor for the Queensland Writers' Centre. Kristin lives in Yeppoon, with her husband and two sons and is currently at work on her second collection of poems.