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Kristin Maffei
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Kristin Maffei

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Born
in Bronx, NY, The United States
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Poetry

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November 2008

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Kristin Maffei is a New England-based poet and copywriter. Specializing in higher education, finance, and healthcare writing, she splits her time between New York and Vermont.

Kristin was educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Oxford, and holds an MFA from New York University, where she was a Goldwater Fellow in poetry and co-curator of the NYU Emerging Writers Series at KGB Bar.

Placed in liminal spaces with a historical bend, Kristin’s poetry has been featured in Works & Days, Mount Hope Journal, American Athenaeum, qarrtsiluni, The Little Jackie Paper, and Underwater New York. Her book-length work of poetry, Brack, completed under the supervision of Yusef Komunyakaa, is currently available for publication.

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Average rating: 4.33 · 12 ratings · 3 reviews · 2 distinct works
Horses (Brick Books)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions
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4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007
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Jul 16, 2026 04:37PM  · 
Kristin and 1 other person liked Margaret Y.'s review of Wildwood:
Wildwood by Ashley Woo
"I just finished reading Wildwood, and it is one of the best Gothic mysteries I've ever read. It has an intelligent and tight plot line that kept me on my toes throughout. The characters were well-developed and the writing was vivid. I loved the detai" Read more of this review »
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The Travels of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
The Travels of Babar (Babar, #2)
by Jean de Brunhoff
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The Story of Babar by Jean de Brunhoff
The Story of Babar (Babar, #1)
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Tenth of December by George Saunders
Tenth of December
by George Saunders
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The Witch by Marie NDiaye
The Witch
by Marie NDiaye
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The Boy in the Oak by Jessica Albarn
The Boy in the Oak
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The Lights That Dance in the Night by Yuval Zommer
The Lights That Dance in the Night
by Yuval Zommer
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The Midsummer Tomte and the Little Rabbits by Ulf Stark
The Midsummer Tomte and the Little Rabbits
by Ulf Stark
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Wildwood by Ashley Woo
Wildwood
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Wildwood was a perfect spooky summer read for this Vermonter, but I think it would be a great read anywhere, any season for fans of Gothic fiction. The setting is so lush that it becomes its own character, and the descriptions of both the house and t ...more
Jun 18, 2026 07:16PM  · 2 likes ·   · see review
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Jhumpa Lahiri
“While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter Of Maladies
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