Kristen Paulson-Nguyen
Instructor
About Kristen
Kristen was the first to complete two Incubators. She kicked off GrubStreet's Book Club and its 2023 Sessions with the Editor. She instructs adults in the micro-flash form; the memoir proposal; the hermit crab essay; flash and other essays, and youth in nonfiction, the writing life; and flash. Kristen is the 2023 producer of micro-flash contest Boston in 100 Words. Her memoir was a Solstice Magazine Summer 2023 Graphic Lit Editor's Pick. Her essay "Blight" will be published in the textbook "Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss," forthcoming in 2024 from Columbia University Press. Kristen's story "Neighbors" was a 2020 winner of Boston in 100 Words. Her work has been published in the Boston Globe
(where she was a singles columnist); New York Times; Creative Nonfiction; Flyway Journal of Writing & the Environment; The Keepthings; Solstice and the Publish Her Anthology Better Together: A Collection of Essays on Women Gathering. She has presented at HippoCamp, Gotham Writers Workshop, More to the Story, and the Boston Book Festival. Kristen is a founder of Tell-All Boston, the city's only nonfiction literary series. Through her service Title Doctor, she has titled more than a dozen works of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, a craft book, a memoir-in-essays, and The Writer’s 2021 contest-winning essay. Kristen is earning her licensure to teach middle-school English at Lesley University. She seeks representation for her memoir.
