Judy Kronenfeld is the author of four poetry collections including Ghost Nurseries, a Finishing Line chapbook (2005) and Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the Litchfield Review Poetry Book Prize (2008). Her poems, as well as the occasional short story and personal essay have appeared in many print and online journals including Adanna, Calyx, Cimarron Review, American Poetry Journal, Fox Chase Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, Natural Bridge, Hiram Poetry Review, Passager, Poetry International, Spoon River Poetry Review, Stirring, Women’s Review of Books and Pedestal, as well as in a dozen and a half anthologies or text books, including Bear Flag Republic: Prose Poems and Poetics from California (Greenhouse Review Press/Alcatraz Editions, 2008), Beyond Forgetting: Poetry and Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease (Kent State University Press, 2009), and Love over 60: An Anthology of Women's Poems (Mayapple Press, 2010). She is Lecturer Emerita—after twenty-five years of teaching in the Creative Writing Department at UC Riverside. Her new poetry collection, Shimmer, will be published by WordTech Editions in 2012.