Kristen Case is the author two poetry books: Little Arias, which won the Maine literary Award for Poetry in 2016, and Principles of Economics, which won the 2018 Gatewood Prize. She received a MacDowell fellowship in 2019 for work on her forthcoming poetry collection, Daphne. Case is also co-editor of the volume 21|19: Contemporary Poets in the 19th-Century Archive and the author of a critical book and several scholarly articles about American literature.