Amanda Latrenta Crane is the author of the chapbook Barbiecue (2002) and the book The Queen of Joyful Things: Poems on Grief. (May 2025). She has poems published in literary journals including: Barbaric Yawp, Chronogram, The Paterson Literary Review, and Sawbuck. She is a two-time Editor’s Choice recipient for the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. Her BA in English is from SUNY at New Paltz, and her MFA in Creative Writing is from BGSU in Ohio. She lives and works in New Jersey as an English and Creative Writing professor for several online universities.