We're delighted to announce that 2008 Centrum Resident Kristina Marie Darling has published her collection of poetry "Night Songs" with Gold Wake Press, an independent Boston publishing house.

Darling is a graduate of Washington University, and the author of multiple chapbooks, including "Fevers and Clocks" and "The Traffic in Women." A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, her poems appear in such journals as Gargoyle, Cider Press Review, and Janus Head.

Literary essays and book reviews have been published in the Gettysburg Review, the Boston Review, Shenandoah, and other magazines.

Darling's awards include residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, as well as others. She currently studies philosphy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis; and hopes to pursue a doctorate in English literature.