Summary
Krystal A. Sital is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad, which was a finalist for the PEN America Emerging Writers Award. Her essays are anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home, Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences in the Trump Era and Table of Contents: Community Cookbook.
Featured works can be found in The New York Times, ELLE, Huffpost, Today’s Parent, Salon, Catapult, LitHub, The Margins and elsewhere. She holds a B.A. from NJCU, where she double majored in creative writing and psychology with a minor in women and gender studies, before moving on to receive her MFA from Hunter College, where she was a Hertog Fellow.
While writing, Krystal first began her editorial journey as the editorial assistant for Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. From there, she became the prose editor and book reviewer for Vine Leaves Literary Journal; the narrative nonfiction editor for the international journal, The Missing Slate; the world literature editor at Riffle Books; and the co-editor-in-chief at Mothers Always Write.
She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in creative writing, gender and sexuality, peoples and cultures of the Caribbean, and multicultural literature. She has facilitated workshops and presented at conferences internationally.
The first twelve years of her life were spent on the island of Trinidad before she moved to New Jersey. Now a mother to three precocious children, they traipse around with her, enjoying every literary event they can sink their teeth into.
Education
- B.A., Creative Writing and Psychology, minor in Women and Gender Studies, New Jersey City University
- MFA, Creative Nonfiction, Hunter College