Barbara Lydecker Crane

Barbara Lydecker Crane is a formal poet based in Somerville, Massachusetts. She has won the Kim Bridgford Memorial Sonnet Crown Contest and the Helen Schaible Sonnet Contest, and has twice been a finalist for the Rattle Poetry Prize. She has published five poetry collections, including You Will Remember Me (2023) and Art & Soul (2025), and is working on an ekphrastic collection.