Judith Pacht’s third full-length book Precarious was just published by Giant Claw Press in 2025. Her recent books include Infirmary for a Private Soul (Tebot Bach) and A Cumulus Fiction (Finishing Line Press). Her book Summer Hunger (Tebot Bach), won the 2011 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. Earlier chapbooks include User’s Guide, St. Louis Suite (Finishing Line Press), and Falcon.

A three-time Pushcart nominee, Pacht was first place winner in the Georgia Poetry Society’s Edgar Bowers competition. Her work has appeared in journals that include Ploughshares, Runes, Nimrod and Phoebe, and her poems have been translated into Russian for publication in Foreign Literature (Moscow). Her work appears in numerous anthologies.

Pacht has read at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books and Charleston, SC’s Piccolo Spoleto Festival. She has taught political poetry at Denver’s annual LitFest at the Lighthouse, in Los Angeles at Beyond Baroque, and at UCLA Extension.

She lives in Los Angeles with her partner, Kenneth Fisher.

Videos of Judith Pacht:

Beyond Baroque
6 December 2025
Full reading with Judith Pacht, Holaday Mason and David St. John - 81 minutes
Introduction of Judith Pacht by David St. John - 5 minutes
Reading by Judith Pacht – 14 minutes

Beyond Baroque
24 October 2025
with Erik Manuel Soto, Katharine Haake, and Chuck Rosenthal

Valley Contemporary Poets
29 January 2023
with Florence Weinberger and Harry Northrup

Beyond Baroque
6 August 2022
with Holaday Mason and Mariano Zaro

South Central LA Ministry Project
2022
“Summer Hunger, New York City”
“Woman Child”

Askew Poetry Journal at Beyond Baroque: Writers Resist
7 December 2020

Poetry LA Interview with Judith Pacht by Mariano Zaro
2019

Askew Poetry Journal at Beyond Baroque
7 December 2013

Tebot Bach
29 October 2010

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