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Judy Kronenfeld [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Riverside, CA
California US
Email: 
judy.kronenfeld@ucr.edu
Bio: 

Judy Kronenfeld is the author of six full-length collections and three chapbooks of poetry, 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), and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, 2nd edition (Antrim House, 2012)—winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize. 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. 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. A new chapbook of poems, Oh Memory, You Unlocked Cabinet of Amazements, is forthcoming from Bamboo Dart Press in June, 2024. Her hybrid memoir in essays interspersed with poems, Apartness, is forthcoming from Inlandia Books in 2025.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Favorite authors: 
Yehuda Amichai, Ellen Bass, Marie Howe, Ted Kooser, Danusha Lameris, Alicia Ostriker, Linda Pastan, C.K. Williams, Robert Wrigley
Born in: 
New York, NY
New York
Raised in: 
New York, NY
New York
Website: 
https://judykronenfeld.com [2]
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.

Identifies as: 
Jewish
Prefers to work with: 
Adults

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