Tracey Ludvik

Amazing News! After decades of tedious work, my full-length poetry collection is getting published in the Fall of 2026 by Fresh Water Press! Phases of the Wayward Moon is about the harrowing and mystical nature of this woman's life journey. I'm thrilled to announce the publisher has accepted illustrations for the book created by my nephew, 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.