Bill Blumenreich Presents: Kristina Kuzmic

Fri. Jun. 07, 2024 at 7:30 pm

Tickets will go on sale Friday, April 5th at 10:00 AM

Kristina Kuzmic is a cheerleader for her fellow humans. It’s not something she ever anticipated doing, but after immigrating to America from Croatia during the war in her homeland and later facing more challenges (divorce, single parenting, poverty, mental health challenges), Kristina’s goal became clear: to be for others what she needed when she was at her lowest.

Now, with well over one billion video views, Kristina is providing her audience with encouragement, hope and humor in a role she never expected to fill.

Kristina has performed at comedy clubs and theatres across the country. She is also a sought after international keynote speaker who has a unique way of connecting with audiences of all ages. Her first book, Hold On But Don’t Hold Still, was released through Penguin Random House in February 2020, and made it on multiple bestseller lists. It has been translated in seven languages so far. Kristina’s second book, I Can Fix This! (And Other Lies I’ve Told Myself while Parenting My Struggling Child), is set to be released in May 2024.

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Stacie Cassarino’s most recent collection, Each Luminous Thing (Persea Books, 2023) won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, and was recommended by the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post Book Club. She is the author of Zero at the Bone (New Issues Press, 2009), which received a Lambda Literary Award and the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award, and a scholarly monograph, Culinary Poetics and Edible Images in Twentieth-Century American Literature (OSU Press, 2018).

She is a recipient of the 92Y “Discovery”/The Nation prize and an Astraea Foundation Writers’ Fund Grant, and was a finalist for the Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, AGNI, Gulf Coast, The New Republic, The Slowdown, and elsewhere. She holds a PhD in English from UCLA. She teaches in the English Language & Literature department at Smith College, and lives in Vermont with her three daughters.

Stacie Cassarino Each Luminous Thing Poetry