Poet, educator, literary critic, essayist, and mind-body coach, Kristin Prevallet was born on December 17, 1966 in Denver, Colorado. Prevallet holds a BA from the University of Colorado and a MA in poetics and humanities from the University at Buffalo. Her first published book of poetry was Perturbation, My Sister (First Intensity Press, 1997). Since then, she has published four poetry collections, including Scratch Sides: Poetry Documentation and Image-text Projects (Skanky Possum, 2004), Shadow Evidence Intelligence (Factory School, 2007), I, Afterlife: Essay in Mourning Time (Essay Press, 2007), and Everywhere Here and In Brooklyn (A Four Quartets) (Belladonna, 2012). Her book Third Mind: Creative Writing Through Visual Art (Teachers and Writers Collaborative, 2002) focuses on her unique form of instruction centering on merging visual art with writing and how engaging with visual mediums can be a catalyst for creativity in disparate disciplines. Her writing has also appeared in Bomb Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, The New Republic, and The Boston Review. In 2003, Prevallet, in collaboration with Anne Waldman and Bob Holman, founded a school for poets at the Bowery Poetry Club in Manhattan’s East Village.

Prevallet has spent a substantial amount of her career contributing to the promotion, scholarship, collection, and understanding of the work and life of poet, playwright, filmmaker, and artist, Helen Adam. Through her work with the University at Buffalo Helen Adam collection and interviews with Adam’s contemporaries, Prevallet has proven to be one of the foremost authorities on Adam and the artistic and literary movements she was a part of. Her exhaustive research on this topic culminated with The Helen Adam Reader (National Poetry Foundation, 2007), a thorough unearthing of the life and work of one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures of the beat generation. In addition to traveling around the United States giving lectures and presentations on Adam, Prevallet has also contributed to other works on Helen Adam, including The Collages of Helen Adam (Further Other Book Works/Cuneiform Press, 2018).

More recently, Prevallet has focused on her teaching of trance poetics and her work as a mind-body coach. Her 2013 book Trance Poetics: Your Writing Mind (Wide Reality Books, 2013) outlines her philosophy of writing and creativity as therapeutic practices. Many of the lessons from this work and her courses emphasize engaging a writing process based on free association, automatic writing, and other methods to counteract work/memory blocks. She continues to put this instruction philosophy into practice at The New School, St. John’s University, Bard College, New York University, Pratt Institute, and Spalding University. She also founded a private practice of clinical hypnotherapy in Westchester, NY.