Tracey Ludvik

Huge News! After a life time of work, my poetry book is now available on amazon! Published by Fresh Water Press, Phases of the Wayward Moon is about the harrowing and mystical nature of this woman's life journey. LOCALLY, the book is in Two Rivers WI and as of Oct10 will be in Sheboygan stores then soon in Milwaukee.  Illinois author, Christina Marrocco, says my book is exquisite, uncompromising and simply gorgeous! Calling it gut wrenching...and that it boils at the intersections of womanhood, family, self, tribe, grit and vulnerability.   Publisher Whitney Scott adds that the book offers strength and hope in this time of chaos and fear. Even more glowing remarks and extra info can be found at freshwaterpressllc.com under the news tab regarding tracey ludvik.

Cover art and inside illustrations were created by Brady Ludvik.

Other news includes a first-place prize for my poem, Auschwitz 2003..., from Lakeland University, (11/24). A selection of my published poetry, titled Butterfly, came out in 2023. It highlights the emotional and hormonal turmoil I experienced as a young woman plus topics involving relationships and healing. Available for $14 at Lit Media, 3637 N. 20th Pl., Ste. 34, Sheboygan, WI 53083. 

My poem Rock-On Orpheus appears in the last anthology, Play, from Outrider Press. My work is found in eight previous collections by Outrider Press as well. You can find my work in From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology by Water’s Edge Press as well as Contours: A Literary Landscape from the Driftless Writing Center. You can also see my work in Haiku Journal, Rosebud, Iconoclast, Prism (OSU), Mistry Guild, MUSH (UWMC), and Volga River Review (UIU).  Publications include Wisconsin Great Waters calendars for 2020- 2021 and in the 2011 Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets calendar.

Some of the well-known authors whose workshops I attended include Kim Blaeser, Dorianne Laux, Li-Young Li, Craig Lesley, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Luis Rodriguez, Max Garland and Marianne Chan.

My education includes a B.A in English Lit and a M.A. focused on social change, social research and communication. I taught as an adjunct professor of sociology in Oregon and Wisconsin.