Kris Bigalk (pronounced BEE-yahk) is a writer and professor based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her second collection of poetry, Enough, was released in 2019 and was a finalist in the Housatonic Book Award competition; her first collection, Repeat the Flesh in Numbers, was released in 2012. Bigalk has published poetry in many literary magazines and anthologies, and regularly publishes creative nonfiction and reviews. She has won two Minnesota State Arts Board grants in poetry. Bigalk founded and now directs the groundbreaking AFA in Creative Writing program at Normandale Community College and directs Trio House Press.