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Judith Pacht’s third full-length book Facing South will be published by Giant Claw Press in 2025. Her recent books include Infirmary for a Private Soul (Tebot Bach) and A Cumulous 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.
[Click here] to watch an interview with Judith Pacht by Mariano Zaro on YouTube.
[Click here] to visit Judith on Facebook
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.
[Click here] to watch an interview with Judith Pacht by Mariano Zaro on YouTube.
[Click here] to visit Judith on Facebook
