Barbara Krasner holds an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts. The author of three poetry chapbooks, three novels in verse, and the ekphrastic poetry collection, The Night Watch (Kelsay Books), her work has also been featured in more than seventy literary journals, including ekphrastic poetry in The Ekphrastic Review, The Mackinaw: A Journal of Prose Poetry, MacQueen's Quinterly, and Main Street Rag. She lives and teaches in New Jersey.