Jean L. Kreiling is the author of three collections of poetry: Shared History (2022), Arts & Letters & Love (2018), and The Truth in Dissonance (2014). Her poems appear widely in print and online journals and in anthologies. Her work has been awarded the Rhina Espaillat Poetry Award, the Frost Farm Prize for Metrical Poetry, the Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters Sonnet Prize, the Plymouth Poetry Contest prize, and the String Poet Prize, among other honors. Kreiling is professor emeritus of music at Bridgewater State University and an associate poetry editor for Able Muse: A Review of Poetry, Prose & Art. She lives on the coast of Massachusetts.