Kristina Ryan Tate
Portland, OR, USA | Writer & Mosaic Artist | Resident in 2023, 2024, 2025
Kristina Ryan Tate is an Arizona-born creative writer and artist. As the third of nine children, writing for Tate has become not just a mode of expression, but a voice that cuts through the noise. Most of her work sits in the realm of autofiction, a liminal space between what is real and what is made up. She writes into the facts—and the lies memory tells her—to find the story that didn’t happen within the one that did, a Truth that resonates above everything else.
Tate’s memoir, essays, and fiction appear in The Rumpus, After Dinner Conversation, Narratively, Guernica, Under the Gum Tree, BOMB, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts, where she is the Senior Director of Communications, and a BA from Arizona State University in English Literature and Spanish Language.
Tate lives, writes, and creates in Portland, Oregon with her dog Zoe, and she’s currently working on a novel in the wee hours of the morning.
