Judith Barrington is the author of three collections of poetry, most recently Horses and the Human Soul, and a two recent chapbooks, Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea – a finalist for the Oregon Book Award -- and Lost Lands, winner of the Robin Becker Chapbook Award. Her Lifesaving: A Memoir won the 2001 Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is also the author of the best-selling Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, which is used in writing programs and in writers’ groups across the USA and in Australia.

Her work has been published in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, and presented by Garrison Keillor on NPR’s “The Writer’s Almanac.”

She is a faculty member of the University of Alaska, Anchorage’s low-residency MFA Program and she teaches for The U.K. Poetry School in Britain and Spain.