Kristin Rajan
Kristin Bryant Rajan, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in English. She writes poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and literary criticism and lives in Atlanta, GA. She is widely published in literary and creative writing journals as well as anthologies and is a Pushcart and Best of the Net nominee. Her literary research revolves around meditative moments of deep self in modernist literature. Her teaching and writing explore literature's power to heal and offer paths to personal evolution.
Her poetry chapbook Shadows, 2024, explores the nuances of navigating familial relationships with love and compassion.
She has published articles and presented on Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield, James Joyce, Ann Patchett, Buddhism and Literature, contemplative education, and William Wordsworth . She has facilitated wellness and happiness workshops for KSU faculty and students, community groups in greater Atlanta, and national conferences.
She also teaches spin classes at her local YMCA.
Her writing, research, teaching, and life are extensions of her daily meditation practice, illuminating the gifts in the present (get it?).
Shadows by Kristin Bryant Rajan