Kristan Ruona
Kristan studied creative writing and journalism at San Francisco State University and is earning her MFA from Dominican University of California. She is a California Certified Naturalist. She spent time in residency at the Vermont Studio Center. Her writing has appeared in Phoebe, Santa Clara Review, Dallas Review, Mary: A Journal of New Writing and many others, and placed in the Best Short Short Story in the World Contest. She has a book of poetry titled Why We Light Candles. She mentors individuals in poetry, assisted workshops at Dominican University and developed a poetry workshop Crossroads Poetry Workshop: Inspired by O’Hanlon for the O’Hanlon Center for the Arts in Mill Valley.
Upcoming classes:
June 12 Storytelling for Social Change in Sebastopol
April Poem
This redwood tree fell
in the storm last week
The winds were so strong
but really, the roots are very shallow
Here we imagine
that something sacred is not a weed
But there you can see it growing up again
where I may not want it.
Regardless, It is very cool
here under the canopy
and the creek rising in winter
can wash away many things.