kirsten vail aguilar
writer
writing
Pleiades (Spring 2022)
Hayden’s Ferry Review (fall/winter 2020)
named a notable essay in Best American Essays 2022
The gettysburg review (fall 2020)
THe Jellyfish review (August 2020)
Book Review: The Taiga Syndrome
Entropy Magazine (Summer 2019)
Crazyhorse (Spring 2016)
Pour vida zine (fall 2015)
Cleaver Magazine (Summer 2015)
LDOC (june 2016)
The boiler journal (fall 2014)
About
Kirsten Vail Aguilar was born and raised in Sonoma, California. She holds a degree in International and Global Studies from Middlebury College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Notre Dame. She has attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and a residency at the Arquetopia Foundation in Peru. Currently, she lives in Chicago and works as a freelance writer and editor.