Judith Arcana

Alum 2002

Judith Arcana is a writer of poems, stories, essays and books.

A longtime teacher of literature, writing and women’s studies, Judith has a PhD in Literature, an MA in Women’s Studies, an Urban Preceptorship in Preventive Medicine, and a BA in English. She’s taught in high schools, colleges, libraries, living rooms, a state prison, and a county jail. Her first and last teaching jobs were for students at Niles Township High School in Illinois and Union Graduate School. For Niles, Judith taught English, Creative Writing, and Humanities.

For Union, where she served as a dean, Judith advised doctoral candidates, led residential seminars, and was founding director of the Center for Women in Washington DC.

Judith’s poems, stories. and essays have been published widely for more than forty-five years, on paper and online in literary journals, political, cultural and medical magazines, newspapers, academic journals, anthologies, and textbooks. Her fiction and poetry have won chapbook publication awards from Minerva Rising Press and Turtle Island Quarterly.

Her writing has been supported by the Puffin Foundation, Rockefeller Archive Center, Institute for Anarchist Studies, NW Oregon’s Regional Arts and Culture Council, Celebration Foundation, Union’s doctoral faculty, Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, and Oregon Literary Arts – and fostered by residencies at Soapstone and MilePost5 in Oregon, the Montana Artists Refuge, Ragdale, and the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, as well as the Mesa Refuge.

Read more about Judith and her work at http://www.juditharcana.com/home.