Kristen Havens is a writer and photographer living in Los Angeles. Her fiction and poems have appeared in PANK, Atticus Review, Monkeybicycle, Necessary Fiction, Bending Genres, and Slipstream, among others. A former marketer for a small press and reader for CRAFT literary magazine, she works as a freelance IT contractor, developmental editor, and writer. She is currently writing a novel about technology.

Recent News
- Untitled, Green (Car Wash Series), photo, cover image, forthcoming in RE/BAR Issue 01 (Fall/Winter 2026-2027).
- Untitled (Car Wash Series No. 9), photo, forthcoming in Black Lily zine (2025).
- "In the Face of Such Hope (The Giant Cookie We’ve Been Waiting For)" flash fiction appeared in Does It Have Pockets? (October 1, 2025).
- "How to Read Poetry: 'Landscape with Houses'," YouTube interview discussing my poem in Bracken with Todd Sullivan (March 11, 2021).
- "Aftershocks" (flash fiction) appeared in Atticus Review (May 5, 2020).
- "A Good Sturdy Car for a Young Woman on the Go," (flash fiction), published in Monkeybicycle in February 2020, was assigned reading for Introduction to Creative Writing at Miami University (Spring 2020) and was nominated for inclusion in Best Small Fictions 2021.