Judy Jordan
Judy Jordan (born 1961) is an American poet. Her honors include the Walt Whitman Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Life
She grew up on a small farm near the Carolina border. Her parents were sharecroppers, and she was picking cotton by the time she was 5. She was the first member of her family to attend college, with a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia in 1990, and a Master of Fine Arts degree in 1995. She earned a Master of Fine Arts degree, in fiction from the University of Utah, in 2000. She lived in Salt Lake City.
She taught at the University of Virginia, Piedmont Virginia Community College, and California State University, San Marcos.[1] She teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.[2][3][4]
She lives off-the-grid in a cabin that she built herself in the Shawnee National Forest, and is working on a non-fiction book about her experiences there.
Her poems have appeared in Raintaxi,[5] Blue Pitcher Review, Crossroads: A Journal of Southern Culture, Lucid Oona, Poetry,[6] Western Humanities Review, and Writer’s Eye.
Awards
- 1999 Walt Whitman Award
- 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award[7]
- 1996 Virginia Commission for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry,
Works
Poetry books
- Jordan, Judy (2000). Carolina Ghost Woods: Poems. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2556-4.
- Jordan, Judy (2008). Sixty-Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance A Poem. Louisiana State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-2996-8.
- Jordan, Judy (2018). Hunger. Tinderbox Editions. ISBN 978-1943981069.
Anthologies
- Gerald Costanzo, Jim Daniels, ed. (2000). American poetry: the next generation. Carnegie Mellon University Press. ISBN 978-0-88748-343-1.
- Patrice Vecchione, ed. (2007). Faith and Doubt: An Anthology of Poems. Patrice Vecchione. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-8213-5.
References
- "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
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- http://media.www.guilfordian.com/media/storage/paper281/news/2007/04/06/Features/Judy-Jordan.At.Guilford-2827528-page2.shtml%5B%5D
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-10-15. Retrieved 2009-06-16.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - "August 1996 : Poetry Magazine". poetryfoundation.org.
- "National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry". comcast.net. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30.