Krista Elrick is a photographer based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. After earning her M.F.A. in photography from Arizona State University in 1990, she has had extensive arts-management experience with the Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, and the Western States Arts Federation, and she has completed several public art commissions with the Phoenix Arts Commission and the Seattle Arts Commission. She was also a featured artist in the exhibition/catalog, Grasslands/Separating Species, curated and edited by Mary Anne Redding (Radius Books, in conjunction with the exhibition at 516 ARTS in Albuquerque, 2009), and is a co-editor, with Mary Anne Redding, of Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe (The Museum of New Mexico Press, 2009).