Judith Harris (poet)
Judith Harris is an American poet born in Washington, D.C. She earned a BA from the University of Maryland, an MA in Creative Writing from Brown University, and a PhD in American literature from George Washington University.
She has taught at several colleges in the Washington, D.C. area, including George Washington University, Catholic University, George Mason University, and American University. She has also held writing residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (VCCA) and Frost Place.
Harris has published four major works: Night Garden (2013, Tiger Bark Press); Atonement (2000, LSU Press); The Bad Secret (2006, LSU Press); and Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing (2003, SUNY Press). Signifying Pain is widely used in graduate study.
Her poetry has appeared in many journals and magazines, such as The Nation, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Slate, and The Hudson Review. She has written essays for journals like Tikkun and College English and contributed to poetry anthologies and interviews with other writers.
She has given readings at the Library of Congress (2004) and spoke with Edward Hirsch at the Folger Shakespeare Library (2010). She has received grants from Carnegie Mellon and the DC Commission on the Arts. Harris lives in the Washington, D.C. area and continues to teach writing. Night Garden, her most recent poetry collection, was published in 2013.
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