Judith Werner

Author's Bio

I consider myself a "semi-formalist," writing in forms but not exclusively. I live in Brooklyn Heights, and work as the Grants and Gifts Manager for Habitat for Humanity-New York City. I teach a poetry workshop at Caring Community and have had poems published in many literary magazines and several anthologies, and have a collection of work on the online formal poetry site at www.hypertexts.com.

Publications and Prizes

Anthologies:

A Fierce Brightness (Calyx Books, 2002), Sixteen Voices (Mariposa Press, 1994)

Journals:

Apostrophe, Asheville Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Bridges, Calyx, Chautauqua Literary Journal, Classical Outlook, Comstock Review, Eclectic Literary Forum, Medicinal Purposes, Mid-American Poetry Review, Neovictorian, Rattapallax, Rattle, Slant: A Journal of Poetry, South Dakota Review, Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, The Lyric, Yankee Magazine

Prizes:

I have won in the past the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, The Academy of American Poets Prize, and a Breadloaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship, and nomination for the Pushcart prize. For The Lyric, I have won Best of Issue Prize, Honorable Mentions, the Ronald J. Kemski Prize, and served as judge in another issue.

Personal Favorites

Favorite Authors:

Mary Oliver, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Shakespeare.

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Listing last updated: June 9, 2011

More Information

Listed as:

Poet

Gives readings?

Travels for readings?

Identifies as:

Caucasian, Jewish

Prefers to work with:

Naturalists/Environmentalists, Seniors

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New York, NY

Raised in:

Washington, DC