Congratulations, Judy Kaber ’97
Judy Kaber ’97 was awarded first prize in the Larry Kramer Memorial Chapbook Contest for Rehearsing in the Dark. The contest is sponsored by Pulse Online Literary Journal. Judy was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in the suburbs of Long Island. She dropped out of school, went to California, married, moved to Maine 40 years ago. Two kids and an old house later, she was writing a lot, publishing a little and went back to college. She’s now teaching in Troy, Maine. Literary influences include Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, and Denise Levertov. Kaber’s poems have appeared in The Monkey’s Fist, Wolf Moon Journal, Off the Coast, and Puckerbrush Review. Most recently, she won the 2009 Maine Postmark Poetry Contest sponsored by the Belfast Poetry Festival for her poem “Industrial Remains.”