about the author

Judy Bebelaar is a retired San Francisco public high school teacher of English and creative writing. Her work has been published in The Cape Rock, The Chaffin Journal, Front Range Review, Grasslimb, The Griffin, The Louisville Review, Many Mountains Moving, Meridian Anthology of Contemporary Poetry, The Old Red Kimono, Pearl, Poem, Quercus Review, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, RiverSedge, Rudolf’s Diner online magazine, Schuylkill Valley Journal of the Arts, Ship of Fools, Sierra Nevada Review, Slant, Soundings East, Transfer 43, Westview, Willard & Maple, and the California Poets in the Schools anthologies True Wonders and Remembering What Happened. She is the co-host of a reading series featuring Bay Area Writing Project teachers in Berkeley, California, and is currently at work on a book about experiences at an alternative school. She tied for first place and won two honorable mentions (of four) in the 2006 Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council Poetry Prose and Art Festival in California, judged by Lynne Knight. Recently she was a finalist in Flyway’s Writing the Wild chapbook contest and won an honorable mention in the San Francisco American Pen Women’s Soul-making contest.