Judy Kronenfeld is a poet, a more occasional writer of fiction and creative nonfiction, a retired teacher of Creative Writing and English (Lecturer Emerita, Creative Writing Department, University of California, Riverside), and an Associate Editor of the online poetry magazine, Poemeleon. Her third collection of poetry, Shimmer, will be published by WordTech Editions in January, 2012.

“Judy Kronenfeld’s Shimmer radiates a fierce clarity of vision: the glow of the title is fed by intensities of memory and desire, love and rage. I’m deeply moved by these powerfully voiced poems that oscillate between evocations of an earlier world—the ‘crumbling Bronx,’ the ‘white noise’ of the city—and the new realm of age, loss, and reconciliation to which we all must come.” Sandra Gilbert

“Judy Kronenfeld is a Southern Californian/Ex-New Yorker who’s crossed geographies and decades with her eyes and her heart open. In these fine poems she gives us the fruits of her journeying, some as close to home as the checkout line where we stand ‘ambivalent as mid-afternoon’ and some so globally empathetic that she can write about the mothers of ‘martyred’ babies on one side and soldiers on the other—war victims both: ‘The romance / of a meaningful death must be so brief.’ Kronenfeld’s nearly photographic eye knows that ‘night falls fast, / so fast, piling up in steep/soft drifts, canceling / cornice, column, piling up / in streets of ash and embers’ and yet her poems show us how careful attention continues to enrich us—‘You still see nothing / that is not there, / but now you sense everything / that is.’ ” Deborah Bogen

Her second collection of poetry, Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, won the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Award and was published by the Litchfield Review Press in 2008.

“Judy Kronenfeld’s poems celebrate the world. Her eye for detail, exact and first-hand, coupled with her daring and intelligent arrangement of events, accomplish what poems at their best should— they cherish and preserve our lives so that we might find meaning in them alone—if we have to—as they shine in memory. . . . ” Christopher Buckley

“. . .With consummate skill, capacious feeling, and keen-eyed intelligence, Kronenfeld apprehends and renders ‘the terrible world’ as being awash both in darkness and possibility, while offering the reader astonishing moments of self-knowledge, awe, gratitude, and reverence. . . .” Maurya Simon

“Light Lowering In Diminished Sevenths gives us Judy Kronenfeld at the height of her powers. In this generous collection of poems of memory and aging—her finest work yet—Kronenfeld writes with that sensuous cherishing of the world savored only by those who sense how easy it is to lose. . . .” Molly Peacock

Also a scholar, Judy Kronenfeld has published an historical-cultural-linguistic study, KING LEAR and the Naked Truth: Rethinking the Language of Religion and Resistance (Duke University Press, 1998), which Debora Shuger called an “exciting, thoughtful, and challenging book” and one that “offers a subtle and powerful model of historical change.”