Kristen Joy Emack is a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, a Saint Botolph Fellow and a Massachusetts Cultural Arts Fellow. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, in both galleries and photo festivals, and has been published in magazines including Vogue Italia, OATH, The Horn Book and The Sun. She has lectured at multiple universities including Harvard, Hofstra and Boston University and her work is in multiple private collections and institutions in the US and Europe. Kristen is also a public school educator who lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is represented by Gallery Kayafas in Boston.