©2007 David Meltzer
Judith Pacht's book, Summer Hunger, (Tebot Bach), has won PEN's 2011 Southwest Book Award for Poetry. Her chapbooks, User’s Guide (2009), and St. Louis Suite (Finishing Line Press) were published in 2009 and 2010. Her first poetry collection, the chapbook Falcon (Conflux Press), was published in 2004.
Her manuscript Vectors was a finalist for the 2008 Philip Levine Prize. Pacht won Honorable Mention in the 2007 Robert Frost Award and the 2007 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry competitions. She was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society's Edgar Bowers competition.
A two-time Pushcart nominee, Judith has poems published in Ploughshares, Runes, Phoebe, Cider Press Review, and Foreign Literature (Moscow, Russia), and anthologized in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (Lost Hills Press, 2007), The Poetry of Relationships (Canadian Federation of Poets, 2009) and The Gastronomic Reader (University of California Press). Writers at Work featured her poem, “Surface,” as their January 2009 selection.
She lives in Los Angeles.
Her manuscript Vectors was a finalist for the 2008 Philip Levine Prize. Pacht won Honorable Mention in the 2007 Robert Frost Award and the 2007 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry competitions. She was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society's Edgar Bowers competition.
A two-time Pushcart nominee, Judith has poems published in Ploughshares, Runes, Phoebe, Cider Press Review, and Foreign Literature (Moscow, Russia), and anthologized in From the Other World: Poems in Memory of James Wright (Lost Hills Press, 2007), The Poetry of Relationships (Canadian Federation of Poets, 2009) and The Gastronomic Reader (University of California Press). Writers at Work featured her poem, “Surface,” as their January 2009 selection.
She lives in Los Angeles.
