Kristen Hutchinson is an art historian, visual artist, curator, writer, editor, and art consultant. She is an adjunct professor at the University of Alberta in the Departments of Art and Design and Women’s and Gender Studies. She also teaches independent seminars about art and popular culture in her living room and online. In her artistic practice, she uses collage, photography, video, installation, and performance art to investigate the realms of memory, beauty, mortality, embodiment, the environment, urban space, queerness, and the macabre. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Canada, the UK, and the US.Kristen is the editor-in-chief of Luma Quarterly and is currently writing a non-fiction book about supernatural creatures in contemporary art, film, and television.www.kh1art.ca