Kristin Thiel is a Portland-based writer and editor. She has written book reviews and album liner notes, has documented composer-filmmaker collaborations, and appreciates that writing for Oregon ArtsWatch allows her to continue exploring a variety of arts topics. She is coeditor of and contributor to Fire & Water: Stories from the Anthropocene, an anthology of short stories published by Black Lawrence Press in 2021. She has lived in seven different Portland neighborhoods and explores Oregon through backpacking and road-tripping, wine and beer tasting, show and gallery visiting, running and hiking—some of those, sometimes, with her cat on a leash by her side.
