Kristine Esser Slentz

Kristine Esser Slentz is a poet and multimedia artist of Maltese descent, raised in the Chicagoland area and northwest Indiana. She is queer and a cult escapee, and she holds a GED. Her poetry collection Face-to-Faces, a mixed-media book about lockdown life and digital intimacy, was published by Thirty West Publishing House in January 2026. Earlier books include woman, depose (FlowerSong Press, 2021) and its expanded version EXHIBIT: an amended woman, depose. She co-founded and hosts Adverse Abstraction, a monthly experimental artist series in New York City's East Village.