Kristine Hartvigsen is a Columbia-based freelance writer and poet who also serves as associate editor of Jasper. She began her journalism career in the mid-1980s at The State and The Columbia Record newspapers. She also has more than 20 years of nonprofit marketing and communications experience, working with the South Carolina Hospital Association, American Field Service (AFS) Intercultural Programs, the Southern Institute on Children and Families, the South Carolina Chamber of Commerce, and The Nature Conservancy. Kristine is a past editor of South Carolina Business and Lake Murray-Columbia magazines as well as a past contributing editor of undefined magazine.

 khartvigsen@jaspercolumbia.com