J. L. L. Kroll

I am the author of two poetry chapbooks, Ghost Town Girls and Pantheon: Poetry and Photographs. Both books are available from Amazon and other online retailers. My poetry has appeared in the print journals Spillway, The Talking River Review, The Evening Street Review, Cold Mountain Review, California Quarterly, and Faultline, as well as many others. My poem “The Man Who Came Back” was featured as the January 2019 poem of the month in the online political journal Portside. I am currently working on a full-length volume of poems entitled As If There Is No Emergency, as well as putting the finishing touches on a dystopian young adult road novel titled Wheatland Burning. I hope to have both the poems and novel ready for you very soon.

 

I have worked as (among other things) a college writing and literature teacher, the Senior Editor of a YA literary digest magazine, and a freelance writer of educational materials. In addition to my poetry and fiction, I am the author of twenty five plus books written for freelance clients and ranging from nonfiction student "readers" on science topics, to collections of retold myths, to guides to teaching classics such as The Odyssey and Lord of the Flies.  

 

Growing up, I was a Ghost Town Girl in a very small town in the Upper Midwest which had definitely seen better days. I haven’t lived there in a while, but my poems and stories sometimes seem to find their way back. I like vinyl records, strong coffee, odd ducks, and strange novels. My life is perhaps the strangest novel of all, but that is a story for another day.