Barbara Kreader Skalinder is a poet, musician, and teacher who lives in Highland Park, Illinois. In addition to her MM in Piano Performance from Northwestern University, she holds a Writer’s Certificate in Poetry from the Graham School at the University of Chicago where she studied with Dina Elenbogen and Alice George and won the Student Writer’s Prize Honorable Mention.
A member of the Plumb Line Poets, she has poems in RHINO, Persimmon Tree, Split This Rock, MAYDAY, After Hours, Open: Journal of Arts and Letters, Rogue Agent, and others. She is the author of The Music of Teaching (Hal Leonard).
Paperback: 50 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (November 7, 2026)