Judith Strasser’s poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Witness and many other literary magazines and anthologies. She has been awarded writing residencies at Fundacíon Valparaiso (Spain), Hawthornden Castle (Scotland), The Helene Wurlitzer Foundation (New Mexico), Vermont Studio Center, The Ucross Foundation (Wyoming), and Norcroft (Minnesota). In the summer of 1998, she was Artist-in-Residence at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. Her chapbook, Sand Island Succession: Poems of the Apostles, was published in 2002 by Parallel Press. Judith’s memoir, Black Eye: Escaping a Marriage, Writing a Life, will be published by Terrace Books/University of Wisconsin Press in 2004.
Judith has been a member of the Wisconsin Humanities Council Speakers Bureau since 2000. She lectures and leads discussions about celebrity, memoir, and poetry for both adult and high school audiences, and also conducts writing workshops for children and adults in Wisconsin and other states. She recently retired as a senior producer and interviewer for TO THE BEST OF OUR KNOWLEDGE, a nationally-distributed public radio program. She has received awards for radio production and for poetry from the Wisconsin Arts Board, and published a chapbook, Poems for the Parks, under a grant from the Dane County Cultural Affairs Commission.
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