Q&A: Is there a place you can go to find a critique partner?

I’ve been in the querying trenches for months and all the feedback I’ve gotten is to find a critique partner to work with. How does that happen? Is there a place you can go to find someone like?

I don’t really have critique partners so much as I have friends who are writers with whom I exchange work whenever one of us needs an extra pair of eyes. But to answer your question, I got these friends by basically just talking to them. I commented on their blogs, liked their contest entries, engaged with them on Twitter, responded to their message board posts. Eventually, we became friends and began sharing our work with each other. 

I’m sure there are places one can go specifically to find a critique partner, but I’ve never had much luck in that arena, so I wouldn’t know. Hopefully if someone else sees this and has ideas, they’ll chime in.