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Welcome to my online home. I’m a writer, teacher, and writing practice provocateur and, a new title just added: memoirist. My newest book, When Your Heart Says Go–My Year of Traveling Beyond Loss and Loneliness, has just been released..

Set in 1990-91, the story takes readers along as I travel solo through eleven European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India. The outer journey serves as a container for the inner as I struggle to find my way as a recently widowed, sober, single, independent woman in the vast world as it edges toward the collapse of the Soviet Union and war in the Middle East.

You can find out more about the memoir, me as writer, me as writing teacher, and my other books in various pages and posts throughout my website. And here’s a page all about the latest with When Your Heart Says Go.

One of the finest gifts my life as a writer has given me is to be in community with other writers. These are some of the ways I find and create community. I hope we’ll find each other amid and among all of the opportunities and happenchance the world offers.


Judy responds to a few questions about Wild Women, Wild Voices.

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