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JudithLaura.com
About Judith Laura
Judith Laura is author of the novels, Beyond All Desiring, winner of multiple awards, and Three Part Invention; and the books, Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century and She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother.
Her poems have appeared in many print and online journals including: Metropolitan, Pudding Magazine, OALM, Broomstick, Facets Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Poetry Repair Shop, Soul Fountain, Poemeleon , and the anthologies Prayers to Protest (Pudding House 1998), A Pagan's Muse (Kensington/Citadel 2003), and Not What I Expected (Paycock 2007) This site has examples of her poems previously published in print and links to her poems published elsewhere online. Among the publications in which her short fiction has appeared are: Poetica, So Dark So Deep, Gemini Books' Jetstream line, HLFQ, and the anthology Hot & Bothered 3 (Arsenal Pulp Press 2001). She is a member of The Writer's Center (DC-area) and the Academy of American Poets. Her first rituals were published in the journal WomanSpirit in 1978. Other of her rituals and articles, have appeared in The Beltane Papers, Matrifocus, SageWoman, Voices of Women, and the anthology SageWoman Cauldron (1993). She has had a regular column in The Beltane Papers since 2002. She is a contributor to the "Dancing the Goddess Home" Ritual of the Goddess 2000 Project, and A Winter Solstice Singing Ritual (Emerald Earth 2002). For a more extensive list of material from her Goddess books pre- or re-printed elsewhere, click here. Her religious background is Jewish, Unitarian Universalist, and Goddessian. She feels her strongest Goddess heritage is that of the Ancient Near East including Asherah, Hokmah/Sophia/Wisdom, and Isis. She is member of the Fellowship of Isis. Ordained by the Universal Life Church, she dedicates her ministry to Goddess spirituality.Tarot is part of her spiritual life. She is a reader, teacher, and served on the advisory committee to the American Board for Tarot Certification. She is a member of the American Tarot Association and of the Daughters of Divination, headquartered in San Francisco (she is founder of its DC chapter).
She designs this website and did the original artwork for it. Her graphics (including a color-keyed graphic for the Kabbalah re-envisioning in Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century) and art, including depictions of Asherah, Mary Magdalene, and a three prints inspired by the Nag Hammadi text, "The Thunder, Perfect Mind," are now available at cafepress.com/judithlaura and at Judith Laura's Studio on zazzle.com.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, and grew up near Trenton, NJ, where she graduated from Ewing High School. She received a B. S. in Journalism from Ohio University and has had a separate career as a health writer and editor under the name Judith Levine Willis. She was editor of a health magazine and three anthologies of women's health articles (Diane Publishing 1992, 1994, 1997). Her health articles are published in a number of other anthologies and print magazines, and are ubiquitous on web health sites. She currently lives in the Washington, DC, area.
For a longer bio with additional personal information, click here.