Mindy Kronenberg is a widely published poet, writer, critic, and professor of writing and the arts at SUNY Empire State University. Her work has appeared in print and online journals around the world, in numerous anthologies and video recordings, and has been featured in art exhibits at galleries and museum installations. She is the author of Dismantling the Playground, a poetry chapbook, Images of America: Miller Place, a pictorial history, and an illustrated book of poems, Open. Ms. Kronenberg is a board member of Inspiration Plus, an arts initiative that educates through the linking of art to science, is the editor of Oberon poetry magazine, and a docent/trustee of the Miller Place – Mt. Sinai Historic Society.