Meet Kristie

Kristie Frederick Daugherty is a professor, writer, and editor based in Evansville, IN.

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She is the editor of Invisible Strings: 113 Poets Respond to the Songs of Taylor Swift published in Dec. 2024 from Random House. She has a collection of short stories forthcoming from Macmillan in Oct. 2027,  She has work in The North American Review, American Poetry Review, and many other literary journals.

 

She has a chapbook of poetry, Hits Different: Poems Not By Taylor Swift, co-written with Harvard professor and poet Stephanie Burt forthcoming from Sarabande Books in Oct. 2026, and a short story collection, Red Scarf Stories, forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in fall 2027. She is working on her debut novel.

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Kristie has been featured in Lit Hub, The New York Times, Vulture, USA Today, Parade, Barnes & Noble Reads, & Medium. 

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Kristie holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and she is a PhD candidate at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she is writing a dissertation on how Dr. Taylor Alison Swift's lyrics converge with poetry.

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Kristie is the founder of The 113 Poets Foundation which exists to provide grants to poets. Poetry is the most underfunded art form, and as national writing grants have been slashed throughout the country, poets and small, independent, non-profit presses need more help than ever. 

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