Barbara Krasner
Adjunct Professor
Biography
Barbara Krasner is a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet of Jewish-themed novels in verse and narrative poetry. She holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a PhD in Holocaust & Genocide Studies from Gratz College. Her novels in verse include 37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939 (Kar-Ben/Lerner, 2021), Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers, 2022 and winner of the 2023 Paterson Prize for Books for Young Readers, Grades 7-12), and Facing the Enemy: How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers, 2023, and Junior Library Guild Selection). She is the author of two chapbooks, Chicken Fat (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and Pounding Cobblestone (Kelsay Books, 2018), and earned first prize in the 2022 Miriam Rachimi Micro-chapbook competition for Miss Emma Lazarus Enlightens the World. Individual poems have appeared in Poetica, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, NI Holocaust Anthology, Rust + Moth, Paterson Literary Review, Nimrod International, Peregrine, and numerous other journals. She lives and teaches in New Jersey.
Published Works
Facing the Enemy: How a Nazi Youth Camp in America Tested a Friendship (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers, 2023)
Ethel’s Song: Ethel Rosenberg’s Life in Poems (Calkins Creek/Astra Books for Young Readers, 2022)
37 Days at Sea: Aboard the MS St. Louis, 1939 (Kar-Ben/Lerner, 2021)
Pounding Cobblestone (chapbook; Kelsay Books, 2018)
Chicken Fat (chapbook; Finishing Line Press, 2017)
Links to Sample Works
- Hyacinth Review, “Ode to Chicken Fricassee”
- Mason Street, “Homage to My Hometown” and “At the Kitchen Table”
