Biography
Judith Barrington is the author of Lifesaving: A Memoir, which won the 2000 Lambda Literary Award and was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Her best-selling text, Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, is used in writing programs and by writers' groups across the USA and in Britain and Australia. She has also published three volumes of poetry, most recently, Horses and the Human Soul, which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and a chapbook, Postcard from the Bottom of the Sea. Her work has been published in many literary journals and been featured by Garrison Keillor on his National Public Radio program, The Writer's Almanac. Judith has taught workshops in memoir at Split Rock (University of Minnesota), The Hassayampa Writers' Conference in Prescott, Arizona, The Port Townsend Writers' Conference, and many others. She also teaches memoir classes for The Poetry School in Spain and England and for The Arvon Foundation in the U.K. She is a web mentor for the University of Minnesota. For more information, visit Judith's personal site.
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