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Guest Bio:
Judy Goldman is the author of eight books – four memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. Her most recent memoir, The Rest of Our Lives, published in May 2025, was a finalist for North Carolina Reads and has been named a best seller by the Southern Independent Booksellers Association.
Her memoir, Child, was a Katie Couric Media Must-Read Book for 2022 and a finalist for the Southern Book Award in Nonfiction. Her memoir, Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap, was named a best book of 2019 by Real Simple magazine, is an Editor’s Pick on Amazon, and was named Book of the Month by Our State magazine.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Real Simple, LitHub, Our State, Charlotte Observer, in many anthologies, and in literary journals, such as The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Prairie Schooner, and Shenandoah.
Her awards include the Fortner Writer & Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts & Letters, Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction from the North Carolina Literary & Historical Association, Gerald Cable Poetry Prize from Silverfish Review Press, and the three annual prizes awarded for a book of poetry by a North Carolinian.
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