As the director and publisher of award-winning independent publisher Split/Lip Press celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2024 Kristine Langley Mahler has overseen the fruition of many fiction, flash fiction, hybrid and nonfiction books. She’s also a talented writer, with her first collection, Curing Season: Artifacts, published in 2022, and another two books on the horizon. A
Kristine Langley Mahler is the author of Curing Season: Artifacts (WVU Press, 2022) and A Calendar is a Snakeskin (Autofocus, 2023). Her work has been supported by the Nebraska Arts Council, named Notable in Best American Essays 2019 and 2021, and published in DIAGRAM, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and Fourth Genre, among others. A memoirist experimenting with the truth on the