Abortion
Writings by Judith Arcana
(Editors note: Judith Arcana was a Jane volunteer. The picture
on the left was taken during her days in Jane and is from the video
Jane: An Abortion Service. We have a Quicktime video of Judith
discussing her Jane work available here)
Three Pieces about Abortion
After
her days in Jane, Judith Arcana became a writer, and is currently
writing fiction about tattoos and poems about abortion. Her work is
supported by a Poetry Award from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, a
Poetry Fellowship from Oregon Literary Arts, and grants from the Rockefeller
Archive Center and the Union Institute Graduate College.
Her poems
and short prose pieces appear in anthologies, newspapers and literary
magazines including ZYZZYVA, Nimrod, Fireweed, CALYX and Prairie Schooner.
A longtime
teacher of writing, literature and women’s studies, Judith’s
nonfiction books are Our Mothers’ Daughters, Every Mother’s
Son and Grace Paley’s Life Stories: A Literary Biography.
Fifty years resident in the Great Lakes region, she moved to the Pacific
Northwest in 1995. Judith is a member of the Graduate Faculty of The
Union Institute.
