Judith Baumel is a poet, critic and translator. She is Associate Professor of English and was founding Director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi University. She also lectures on modern and contemporary American poetry at Oxford University, UK. A former director of the Poetry Society of America, her poetry, translations and essays have been published in Poetry, The Agni Review, The Yale Review, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Judith Baumel was born in The Bronx in 1956. She attended The Bronx High School of Science, Radcliffe College (Harvard University) and The Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. She combines her urban, Jewish upbringing with her early academic work in the physical sciences. Her work is about memory and accommodation, about greed and hunger, lust and rage. At times funny, at turns, deeply spiritual and philosophical, Baumel confronts a range of contemporary subjects, from race relations to motherhood, modern Jewish experience to popular music.

The Kangaroo Girl (GenPop Books, 2011), Now (Miami University Press, 1996), The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)