Kristina Kay Robinson

Kristina Kay Robinson is a New Orleans-born poet, writer, and visual artist whose work explores the connections between global communities, focusing on the impact of globalization, militarism, and surveillance on society. Her ongoing installation project, Republica: Temple of Color and Sound, has been featured at Miami Art Week, the New Orleans African American Museum, and currently, featured in Notes For Tomorrow with Independent Curators International. Robinson co-edited Mixed Company, an anthology of fiction and visual narratives by women of color and has curated exhibitions such as Welcome to the Afrofuture and A Disappearance. She is a 2018 recipient of Tulane University’s Center for the Gulf South’s Monroe Fellowship, as well as a 2021 resident at A Studio in the Woods, a program of Tulane University’s ByWater Institute. Her writing in various genres has appeared in Art in America, Guernica, The Baffler, The Nation, The Massachusetts Review and Elle among other outlets. She is a 2019 Rabkin Prize winner in Visual Arts Journalism and a 2024 recipient of the Andy Warhol Arts Writer Grant in the category of Short Form Writing. Robinson serves as New Orleans editor-at-large for Burnaway magazine.