Kristin Barendsen is an award-winning writer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Co-author of Photography: New Mexico, she has published more than 100 stories in international magazines and newspapers. She has also copyedited more than 50 nonfiction books. She is an art critic for Santa Fe’s THE magazine and a former contributing editor of both Yoga + Joyful Living magazine and Yoga Journal. Her personal essays have appeared in The Sun and the Best Women’s Travel Writing 2008, and her poetry has appeared in Sequoia and American Poet. Awards include the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Michael Jasper Gioia Poetry Prize, and a Solas Award for travel writing. Photography: New Mexico was a finalist for a New Mexico Book Award.

Kristin studied creative writing and studio art at Stanford University, graduating with distinction. She has lived in Thailand and the Czech Republic, and has traveled to 30 countries on four continents. A lover of photography, she often publishes photographs with her stories. Although she has practiced yoga and Buddhist meditation since 1994, she is still right on the edge of enlightenment.   She lives with Squeakers and Domino, her exceptionally cute cats. She is currently at work on a memoir about her years abroad, titled On the Outskirts of Göd.

Portrait on Prague's Charles Bridge by Petra R?ži?ková for Yoga Journal, for my article "Too Loud a Solitude," August 2005.

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