Judith Johnson, Professor

(B.A., Barnard). Poetry Writing, Poetic Theory, Fiction Writing, Myth and Popular Culture, Women's Studies, Performance Art.

Humanities 338
442-4073
jej84@mindspring.com
www.albany.edu/~jej84

Judith E. Johnson, poet, fiction-writer, and performance artist, is the author of two books of short fiction and eight books of poetry, the most recent of which are Cities of Mathematics and Desire,2006, and The Ice Lizard,1992 (both from Sheep Meadow Press) and the first of which was Uranium Poems, (Yale Series of Younger Poets 1969). Among her awards and honors are the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, a Playboy fiction award, a National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and the Poetry Society of America Di Castagnola Prize. Her intermedia installation / performance piece, "Friedrich Liebermann, American Artist," has been widely exhibited, and is now being developed as a multi-media cd-rom novel. With Brenda S. Webster, she co-edited Hungry for Light: the Journal of Ethel Schwabacher (the abstract expressionist artist and writer), Indiana University Press, 1993. She has served as President of the Board of Associated Writing Programs and as President of the Poetry Society of America. Currently, she edits the feminist literary periodical, 13th Moon, and publishes The Little Magazine, since 1999 an electronic journal. Before 1985, she published under the name Judith Johnson Sherwin. She is Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies, Director of Honors and Presidential Scholars Programs, and Professor of English and Women's Studies at the State University of New York at Albany, where she has chaired both departments.