Kristin P Bradshaw

Kristin Bradshaw is an Associate Professor and Chair of the undergraduate Creative Writing and General Fine Arts programs at Pacific Northwest College of Art. She teaches in the undergraduate Creative Writing, Intermedia, and is a long-time faculty member teaching in the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies MFA Print Media program. She conducts poetic investigations and observations through writing, letterpress, collage, photography, and sound recording. Bradshaw's critical inquiries converge around fragmentation, the tension between immediacy and accessibility in the experience of poetic and visual works, and the state of the word in contemporary visual culture. Burning Deck Press released her first book, Apologies, in October 2014, which followed the 2005 chapbook, “The Difficult Nature of Contemplation” (Percival House). Her poems have appeared in the New Orleans Review, New American Poetry, Chase Park, and No: a Journal of the Arts. She is a graduate of Brown University’s Literary Arts MFA program, and holds an MA in Religion from the Divinity School at Yale University.

As a U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Belgium, Kristin Bradshaw will work as a visiting scholar with the Ruusbroec Institute, University of Antwerp, in Spring 2025. She will combine research and creative practice related to the Flemish emblem book, and explore how printing and typographic history and book production responded to technological and social shifts in Europe; and through this research seeks to understand implications for contemporary word/image practices such as comic books, zines, book arts, and alternative press publications.