Judith Arcana Biography
by Judith Arcana (1999)
A former
member of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women's Liberation ("Jane"),
Judith Arcana is a writer, currently writing fiction about tattoos
and poems about abortion (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 MothersDaughters, Every Mother's Son and
Grace Play'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.
