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Steve Kronen's poetry has appeared in The New Republic, The American Scholar, Poetry, Agni, APR, The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and The Threepenny Review. He has been a fellow at Bread Loaf, and the Sewanee Writers' Conference, received two Florida Arts Council grants, and the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. His first book, Empirical Evidence, won the Contemporary Poetry Series prize and was published by the University of Georgia Press in 1992. Splendor, his most recent book, was published by BOA Editions in May 2006. Steve was born in Cleveland in 1953 and grew up primarily in Florida. From 1976 to 1979 he lived at Kripalu Yoga Ashram in Pennsylvania (now Kripalu Center in Lennox, Massachusetts). He then moved to New York City for two years to study calligraphy. In 1981 he returned to Miami where he practiced massage therapy for 20 years. He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College in 1988, and in 1998 he returned to school for a degree in Library Science from USF. Currently, he's a librarian at Miami Dade College-Kendall Campus, in Miami where he lives with his wife, novelist Ivonne Lamazares (The Sugar Island) and their daughter, Sophie.

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