Judy Kronenfeld

Poet

Riverside, CA
California US

Author's Bio

Judy Kronenfeld is the author of six full-length collections including If Only There  Were Stations of the Air (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024), Groaning and Singing (FutureCycle, 2022), Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle, 2017), Shimmer (WordTech, 2012),  Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, 2nd edition (Antrim House, 2012)—winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize. She has also published three poetry chapbooks; the most recent is Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet os Amazements! (Bamboo Dart, 2024). Her poems have appeared in Cider Press Review, Cimarron Review, Connotation Press, DMQ Review, Ghost Town, MacQueen's Quinterly, Miramar, Natural Bridge, New Ohio Review, One (Jacar Press), One Art, Rattle, Salt, Sheila-Na-Gig, Southern Florida Poetry Journal, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Your Daily Poem, and other journals, and over four dozen have appeared in  anthologies. Apartness, her hybrid memoir in essays and poems, was released by the Inlandia Institute in 2025. Her creative nonfiction has appeared nine times in Under the Sun and has also been published in Hippocampus and Inlandia: A Literary Journey, among other places. She is Lecturer Emerita, Creative Writing Department, University of California, Riverside. 

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts (Les Femmes Folles Books, 2017)
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Far Out: Poems of the ’60s (Wings Press, 2016)
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Weatherings (FutureCycle Press, 2015)
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Before There Is Nowhere to Stand Palestine/Israel: Poets Respond to the Struggle (Lost Horse Press, 2012)
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Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems (Mayapple Press, 2010)
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Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose About Alzheimer's Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009)
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Red, White, and Blues: Poets on the Promise of America (University of Iowa Press, 2005)
Books:
Groaning and Singing (FutureCycle Press, 2024)
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If Only There Were Stations of the Air (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, 2024)
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Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements! (Bamboo Dart Press, 2024)
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Bird Flying through the Banquet (FutureCycle Press, 2017)
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Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, Winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize (Antrim House Books, 2012)
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Shimmer (WordTech Editions, 2011)
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Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line Press, 2005)
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Disappeared Down Dark Wells and Still Falling (Inevitable Press, 2000)
Prizes won: 

1st Place Winner, Prompt & Circumstance (4, Winter, 2014). Honorable Mention, Reuben Rose Poetry Competition 2013. Semi-finalist, Joy Harjo Poetry Contest, Cutthroat Magazine; Semi-finalist, Oneiros Press Broadside Contest, 2007. Pushcart Prize nominations, 2002, 2006, 2016. Best of the Net nomination 2022. Co-Winner of the first annual poetry contest sponsored by the dA Center for the Arts, Pomona California (monetary award and invited reading), April, 2002.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
Yehuda Amichai, Ellen Bass, Marie Howe, Ted Kooser, Danusha Lameris, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, C.K. Williams, Robert Wrigley
What I'm reading now: 
Traveling for No Good Reason by George Franklin

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
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Last update: Jul 01, 2025