Next up on our staff highlight series is Kristina Kay Robinson, Burnaway’s New Orleans Editor-at-Large (@Kristinakayrobinson).

Kristina Kay Robinson is a poet, writer and scholar born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robinson’s ongoing installation and performance art project, “Republica: Temple of Color and Sound” has been presented in exhibition during Miami Art Week, New Museum’s residency program, Ideas City, New Orleans African American Museum, in collaboration with MoMa’s “Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America and Notes For Tomorrow” with Independent Curators International. Robinson’s curatorial endeavors include Sudanese artist, Khalid Abdel Rahman’s “A Disappearance” hosted in 2017 by the Arts Council of New Orleans and “Welcome to the Afrofuture: The Matrix of Creativity: Where the River Meets the Sea” with New Orleans African American Museum. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in publications such as Southern Cultures, Academy of American Poets, The Baffler and criticism in Art in America, Guernica, The Nation, Harper’s Bazaar and Elle among other outlets. Robinson is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for Visual Arts Journalism and a 2024 Andy Warhol Grant for arts writing. Currently she serves as the New Orleans editor at large for the Atlanta based, Burnaway magazine. _ Image courtesy of Kristina Kay Robinson.