Krystal A. Sital
Biography
Krystal A. Sital is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Secrets We Kept: Three Women of Trinidad (W.W. Norton, 2018). A PEN America Literary Award finalist and Hertog Fellow, her work has appeared in ELLE, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times, Well, Salon, Catapult, Today’s Parent, LitHub, Brain Child, the Caribbean Writer, and elsewhere.
She has taught creative writing, gender and sexuality, business writing, and peoples and cultures of the Caribbean at Fairleigh Dickinson University and at New Jersey City University. She now teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Sierra Nevada College on Lake Tahoe.
Her essay, “Undocumented Lovers in America”, was featured in the anthology A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family and the Meaning of Home (Catapult, 2020).
Krystal was born in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to the United States in 1999. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children.
