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Welcome.

Kristin Brace is a writer living in West Michigan. Her small obsessions include books, houseplants, Italy, the scent of tomatoes fresh from the vine, names, peonies at their peak, the Oxford comma, accordion music in a minor key, colors, Lake Michigan in every weather, and kittens in the sun.


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Kristin's full-length poetry collection

Toward the Wild Abundance was selected for the 2018 Wheelbarrow Books Poetry Prize.

Available from Michigan State University Press and your local indie bookstore.

Endorsements and interviews here.


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Exploring the overlooked, the interior,

and the unspoken, Kristin’s poetry chapbook Each Darkness Inside is available from your favorite bookstore and Finishing Line Press.

Endorsements, radio interviews, and poems here.


Fence, Patio, Blessed Virgin

is a poetry chapbook of a granddaughter's memories woven with narrative drawn from the final years of her grandmother's life.

Available from Finishing Line Press or wherever you buy books.

Endorsements, radio interviews, and poems here.