Alystyre Julian is a poet, filmmaker, and photographer. She is the director of Outrider (2025), an experimental portrait documentary made with & about poet Anne Waldman. Julian co-curated Language and Light: The Films of Ed Bowes at Anthology Film Archives (2024). She was the stills photographer on award-winning feature films Diane, Monsters and Men, and others, and has directed and worked on numerous short films, video and documentary projects. She holds an MFA in Writing from Bard College, and previously taught writing at Long Island University, Montclair State University, and screenwriting at New York University. Her poems have been featured in publications such as Poetry Project Newsletter, Chain, Talisman, and Pharos. She lives and works in New York City, where she is at work on a new film project related to Black Mountain College.