PUGGED POETRY

Hello, my name is Judy Jordan. I am in my 17th year of teaching at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) and have three published books and two chapbooks of poetry. My first book, Carolina Ghost Woods, won the 1999 Academy of American Poets' Walt Whitman Award and went on to win the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award, the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award, the Oscar Arnold Young Book Prize of the Poetry Council of .North Carolina, and the Utah Book of the Year Award for Poetry. 60 Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance was published by LSU in 2005 and Hunger came out from Tinderbox Editions in January of 2018. My fourth book, Children of Salt, is currently being read by Tinderbox Editions and I am nearing completion of a fifth book of poems as well as a novel and a memoir. I have two Masters of Fine Arts, one in poetry from the University of Virginia and one in fiction from the University of Utah.

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