Krystal A. Sital is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad which was a finalist for the PEN America Emerging Writers Award. Her essays have been anthologized in A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home and Fury: Women’s Lived Experiences in the Trump Era. Krystal’s work has been featured in The New York Times, ELLE, HuffPost, Today’s Parent, Salon, Catapult, LitHub, The Margins, and elsewhere. She currently teaches nonfiction at the University of Reno in Tahoe’s low residency MFA program. She is almost done with her novel and is currently looking for an agent.
Read Krystal’s short story “A Journey of a Hundred Feet: Told in Triptych” FROM ISSUE 8.1here.