Kristie Betts Letter teaches Hamlet to high school students and plays trivia with her family in Colorado. Her poetry collection Under-Worldly (Editorial L’Aleph 2017) examines what lies beneath with what Cowboy Jamboree describes as “fantastic images of the subterranean grit.” The Massachusetts Review, The North Dakota Quarterly, Washington Square, Passages North, Pangolin Papers, and The Southern Humanities Review have featured her writing and Best American Short Fictions and Terrain Environmental Writing Awards have lauded it. In non-fiction, she’s published a teaching handbook for the Colorado Department of Education, critical articles about subjects such as Game of Thrones trivia contests, and even has a story about cancer in Chicken Soup for the Teacher’s Soul. She's earned four NEH fellowships, several teaching awards, and was a 2017 featured writer at the Montana Book Festival.
