Chrystos, poet and activist, author. Her works include: Fugitive Colors (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995); Fire Power (Press Gang, 1995); and In Her I Am (Press Gang, 1993). Christos is a recipient of an NEA Arts Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Grant, the Audre Lord International Poetry award, a Sappho Award, a Barbara Deming Memorial Grant, and the Fund for Human Rights Freedom of Expression Award.
“Complex, rich and wide, Chrystos’ poems are stories that sing in my heart—terrible stories, passionate stories, stories in song so beautiful they hurry the hope of my own healing.”
—Dorothy Allison