Kristen Moraine

Kristen Moraine is an author and English teacher living in the Pacific Northwest with her family. She is the 2025 Bechtel Prize Winner, and her work has appeared in Teachers and Writers Magazine, The Gyroscope Review, One Potato, Literary Mama, Everyday Fiction, and elsewhere. Kristen earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of San Francisco. She is currently working on a contemporary YA novel.