Krista collaborates on book projects with organizations and authors with whose work she is in deep, ongoing conversation. These collaborations emerge from years of shared philosophical inquiry. Her drawings, in these books, create spaces for expansive forms of perception and engagement that invite the sensing body into dynamic conversation with the text.
Book Collaborations
For The Wild Anthology
Krista created extensive artwork for this forthcoming anthology, including front and back cover art and approximately 40-50 artworks throughout the publication.
Publisher: For The Wild
Publication date: Expected 2026
Link: TBD
Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader
Krista created commissioned portrait artwork for the cover and additional artwork throughout this collection of Báyò Akómoláfé's writings.
Publisher: Ayin Press
Publication date: February 24, 2026
Link: ayinpress.org/selah-a-bayo-akomolafe-reader
Sister Death: Political Theologies for Living and Dying
Krista created 26 artworks and cover art (Binding for a Sanguine Shelter, 2020) for Beatrice Marovich's book exploring the relationship between life and death through political theology, ecophilosophy, and multispecies thinking. The collaboration emerged from nearly two decades of friendship and shared philosophical inquiry into embodiment, sensation, and the spaces where beauty and horror bleed together.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 2023
Link: cup.columbia.edu/book/sister-death
Other Publications
"Becoming Earth"
Article by Beatrice Marovich featuring Krista's Shelf Life watercolor series—images exploring human composting and the transformation of bodies into earth through drawings of composting vegetables, breasts and flesh.
Publisher: SAND (Science and Nonduality)
Publication date: 2020
Link: scienceandnonduality.com/article/becoming-earth
"Animal Altars"
Essay by Beatrice Marovich with Krista's drawings exploring death, animal remains, hunting, taxidermy, and the boundaries between living and dead, human and animal.
Publisher: Killing the Buddha
Publication date: May 2, 2011
Link: killingthebuddha.com/mag/confession/animal-altars