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