Author: Miriam Krasno

Miriam Krasno is a former publishing executive and a recently retired social worker/psychotherapist. Currently working on a book of creative nonfiction about intergenerational transmission of trauma, she works on mental health equity issues in her town of Skokie, Illinois. Her poem “Separation” was published in the anthology Her Soul Beneath the Bone, University of Illinois Press. Her essay “The Joke People” was published in the Winter 2024 issue of River and South Review, and her poems, “Runs in the Family” and “Why Brides Wear Blue” appeared in the Spring 2024 issue of HerWords. Krasno’s work has also been featured in a variety of Aba Press magazines and in Fan, a baseball quarterly.