Judy Kronenfeld & Robbi Nester

Judy Kronenfeld is the author of four full-length collections of poetry: Bird Flying through the Banquet(FutureCycle Press, 2017), Shimmer (WordTech Editions, 2012), Light Lowering in Diminished Sevenths, winner of the 2007 Litchfield Review Poetry Book Award, now available in a second edition (Antrim House Books, 2012), and Shadow of Wings (Bellflower, 1991). She has also published two chapbooks, Disappeared Down Dark Wells and Still Falling (Inevitable Press, 2000), and Ghost Nurseries (Finishing Line, 2005). A Stanford Ph.D., Judy has also authored a controversial critical study, King Lear and the Naked Truth (Duke, 1998). She has taught English literature at the University of California, Irvine, the University of California, Riverside, and Purdue University. After her midlife turn back to her childhood love of writing poetry, Judy began to teach in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside, where she is now Lecturer Emerita, having retired after 25 years. She now serves as an Associate Editor of the online journal,Poemeleon . 

Robbi Nester is a poet, writer, and teacher of writing who made the long trip out to the West Coast for graduate school and stayed there. She is the author of a chapbook of yoga poems, Balance (White Violet, 2012) and has published many poems, essays, reviews, and interviews in publications including Poemeleon, Inlandia, Lummox, Qarrtsiluni, Jenny, Spark 17 and 18, Philadelphia Stories, Annapoorna, Northern Liberties Review, Floyd County Moonshine, and Caesura. She is the editor of an anthology of NPR and PBS poetry, The Liberal Media Made Me Do It! (Ninetoes Press), and author of a book of poems, A Likely Story.