Judith Barrington
Judith Barrington has published three collections of poetry, including her latest book, Horses and the Human Soul.
Judith Barrington is a poet and memoirist who has published three collections of poetry, a prize-winning memoir, and a text on writing literary memoir which is used all across the United States and in Australia and Europe. Her most recent poetry is collected in a new chapbook, Postcard From the Bottom of the Sea. Her most recent full length book is Horses and the Human Soul about which reviewer Barbara Drake, writing in Calyx, said: "These stunning poems find moral high ground in the world of nature and animals without falsifying that world." Her memoir, Lifesaving, won the Lambda Book Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. She is well known as a writer and much sought-after as a teacher. She is a web mentor for the University of Minnesota and offers workshops at many conferences and writing events in the U.S. as well as in England and Spain. Judith grew up in England and moved to the United States in 1976. She has lived in Portland, Oregon since then, returning to Europe to give readings and workshops every year.