Krista Eastman's writing has earned recognition from Best American Essays and appeared in The Georgia Review, The Kenyon Review (KROnline), New Letters, and other journals. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Scrap Metal (A Prologue) Insider's Almanac Wonder Spot Middle West The Painted Forest Everybody Comes Round Here Animals My Youth Layers of Ice Notes Acknowledgments
The Painted Forest is a surprising and tender book in which a reader might be reminded of the considered natural observations of Annie Dillard, the unrelenting gaze of Lia Purpura, or the masterful storytelling of Jo Ann Beard. Eastman is interested in interrogating the history and ethos of several specific places, including her own home state of Wisconsin, as well as elegantly demonstrating the ways in which landscapes shift and morph through generations and recall."- Caryl Pagel, author of Twice Told "In this shimmering collection, Krista Eastman blends imagined scene with researched fact to bring us fresh visions of places we thought we knew. From examinations of home to 'laughter from nowhere,' from the Wisconsin Dells to Antarctica's McMurdo Station, from an itinerant painter's elliptical masterwork to gestation's feral undertow, Eastman casts a spell that renders us 'still captive to the mystery in distance, still loyal to the pledge found in story."- Joni Tevis, author of The World Is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse