about kriska

Kriska Desir is a Haitian-American writer and TV professional based in Los Angeles. She has worked in comedy development at Desert Whale Productions since 2021. Her fiction has been published in Epiphany. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Vulture, NYLON, SPIN, and elsewhere. She is a 2026 Periplus Fellow and an incoming MFA candidate in fiction at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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