Kristin Gustafson typically thinks she is funnier than she really is. She is one of Literary Cleveland’s 2023-2024 Breakthrough Writing Residents and is working on her first full-length poetry collection about mental illness and pop culture. Her work is forthcoming or has appeared in HAD, Anti-Heroin Chic, The Bitchin’ Kitsch, BULLSHIT LIT, Gone Lawn, and elsewhere.