about

I’m a poet living on unceded ancestral Lenape land in the Catskill Mountains of New York State.

My poems, reviews, and interviews appear in publications including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Bennington Review, Cave Wall, Cincinnati Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Narrative, Ninth Letter, Orion, Pleiades, Provincetown Arts, Rain Taxi, River Styx, Salamander, The Southampton Review, Tinderbox, and Waxwing. I’ve been a resident at the Vermont Studio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Soapstone, the Ucross Foundation, Hortus Arboretum, and Write On, Door County; I’ve also been a visiting poet at schools including the University of Pennsylvania, LaSalle College, the Westover School, Lebanon Valley College, and the University of Northern Colorado. Keeper, my first book, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press, and was published by Pitt in fall, 2013. My second book, The Thicket, was published by Pitt in November, 2021.

My last name is pronounced like Judds.