Authors starting with P

- Judith Pordon (1954 - ) -

Ancestry: Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Judith Pordon is an American poet, writer, and poetry editor. The central themes in her poetry are: the multicultural experience, celebration of various types of love, and contemporary social issues. Some of her more well known works include, How Will You Kiss?, Expiration, and At The Top Of The Food Chain But The Bottom Of The Line.

Judith Pordon was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her mother Eleanor Haggett Pordon left an administrative and scientific career in chemistry to raise her children and was Judith's principal muse.

At age five her family moved from Georgia to suburban Boston. Her high school career was completed in Concord, Massachusetts, a few blocks from Thoreau's Walden Pond. She graduated from New College Of California in 1978.

Her early poems, in the 1970s and 1980s explored various themes including contact with nature, and social criticism. In the 1990s she lived in Hawaii and a multicultural emphasis appeared in her work. She was befriended and mentored by Aemilia Laracuen, artist and primary muse of poet Robert Graves, who encouraged her to seek publication.

After writing poetry for 30 years, she began submitting her work to literary journals. In her first year her work was published in over two dozen journals, including Chiron Review, Tulane Review, Writers Journal, Buffalo Bones, The Rockford Review, The Ledge, The Orange Willow Review, VLQ, Black Bear Review, and The American Dissident.

er first screenplay sHe, was completed in 1993. Her first book of poems, THE BODY SPEAKS was completed in 1999, and her second, THE LONG WAY HOME, was published in 2002.