Kristiana Rae Colón (April 16, 1986) is an American poet, playwright, actor, educator, Cave Canem Fellow, creator of and co-founder of . She was awarded 2017 Best Black Playwright by . Her plays have premiered in Chicago, New York, London, and other cities. Colón is the author of several plays and poems. She earned the 2013 Drinking Gourd Poetry Prize. Her play, Octagon, won Colón the Arizona Theatre Company 2014 National Latino Playwriting Award. Kristiana's writing, producing, and organizing work to radically reimagine power structures, our complicity in them, and visions for liberation.