Judy Kirkwood

After receiving a Master’s degree with a specialization in poetry from the Creative Writing program at the University of Illinois, Chicago, 50 years ago, Judy Kirkwood was mystified as to how to put that expertise into practice; then realized all writing can, and maybe should, be informed by poetry. A prize-winning author of hundreds of articles on travel, lifestyle, health, personality and business profiles for magazines and websites, as well as a 45-year veteran editor, ghostwriter, and book doctor/midwife for both fiction and nonfiction, she has returned to her roots with her Twirling in a Beam of Light, a woman's life in poetry. Judy works closely with Lucid House Publishing as Executive Editor. A midwesterner by birth and temperament, Judy now lives in Delray Beach, Florida, with availability to speak to book clubs and present workshops on Poetry as a Playground and Poetry as Memoir.