Kianna Greene

Kianna Greene is a poet and writer living in Orlando, Florida, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Epiphany, Salt Hill, Rust & Moth, Bellingham Review, The Citron Review, The Penn Review, The Indianapolis Review, Maudlin House, and other journals. She was the winner of Ashland Poetry Press’s 2026 Poetry Broadside Contest, a finalist for the Just Buffalo Literary Center’s 2026 Poetry Fellowship, a finalist for Frontier Poetry’s 2025 Misfit Poem Prize, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize. She is an alumna of the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop and the Key West Writers’ Workshop. Currently, Kianna serves as an Associate Poetry Editor for The Florida Review and Director of The Cypress Dome, the University of Central Florida’s undergraduate literary journal.