Barbara Krasner is a New Jersey-based poet and author of several novels in verse and poetry collections, including Poems of the Winter Palace (Bottlecap Press, 2025), The Night Watch (Kelsay Books, 2025), and the forthcoming The Wanderers (Shanti Arts, 2026), and Memory Collector (Kelsay Books, 2027). She has been leaning into writing in response to art as a way to grapple with the confluence of several chronic conditions.