Barbara Krasner

Recently retired after a twenty-five year marketing career at AT&T, Lucent Technologies, and Alcatel-Lucent, most recently as Director, Customer Advocacy, Barbara Krasner is now a full-time writer.

Krasner is an award-winning author of more than 100 articles for the adult market that have appeared in Ancestry, Avotaynu: The International Review of Jewish Genealogy, B’nai B’rith International Jewish Monthly, Dorot, Family Chronicle, Family Tree, Genealogical Computing, Generations, German Life, Heritage Quest, Russian Life, Writer’s Digest, The Writer, and several newspapers since August 1998. For more than five years, she served as Contributing Editor to Family Chronicle, History Magazine , and Heritage Quest Magazine.

Her first book, Images of America: Kearny, New Jersey, was published by Arcadia in February 2000. Her second book, Discovering Your Jewish Ancestors, was published by Heritage Quest in June 2001. Krasner also authored the chapter “Decoding Genetics: Your Family’s Health History” for Celebrating the Family: The MyFamily.com Guide to Understanding Your Family History, published by Michael Friedman Publishing Group, 2002. Her third book, Images of America: Kearny’s Immigrant Heritage debuted in November 2003. A new book to help Kearny's public library celebrate its 100th anniversary, The Kearny Public Library and Its Town: A Pictorial History, appeared in June 2007.

A January 2006 graduate of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults program at Vermont College, Krasner is also a frequent contributor to children’s magazines focusing on Judaica, history and science, including Appleseeds, BabagaNewz, Calliope, Cobblestone, Footsteps, Highlights for Children, and Odyssey. She has led an annual article writing workshop at the Highlights Foundation in Pennsylvania and is leadindg a new workshop in the spring of 2010, Writing Jewish-themed Children's Books. She frequently lectures at Kearny area schools about the town’s history.

Krasner has worked in the publishing and communications industries for more than twenty-five years. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rutgers University’s Douglass College, where she earned her B.A. in German. An award-winning Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM), she also holds an M.B.A. in Marketing from Rutgers University.