JUDITH TANNENBAUM

Dates at Hedgebrook
October - December, 1996 (Fir Cottage)

Genres
Fiction, Creative Non-fiction, Poetry, Political/Activism Writing, Non-fiction

Publications and Productions

• Solid Ground. (editor) Aunt Lute Books (2006).
• Jump Write In: Creative Writing Exercises for Diverse Communities, Grades 6-12. (editor) Jossey-Bass/Wiley
  (2005)
• “Human Beings Together,” in Turning Wheel. (September 2002); Paths of Learning (Autumn 2002)
• Teeth, Wiggly as Earthquakes: Writing Poetry in the Primary Grades. Stenhouse Publishers (2000)
• Disguised as a Poem: My Years Teaching Poetry at San Quentin. Northeastern University Press (2000)
• In The Crook of Grief’s Arm. Nehama Press (1993)
• "Searchlight," in Changing Light: The Eternal Cycle of Night and Day. HarperCollins (1991)
• Songs In The Night. Nehama Press (1988)
• The Dark Thoughts. Nehama Press (1987)
• No Longer Hers. Nehama Press (1986)
• Ten To Darkness. Nehama Press (1985)
• The World Saying Yes. Nehama Press (1980)

Honors, Awards and Acknowledgements

• Finalist, PEN Center USA West’s Literary Award Winners, 2001
• California Arts Council, 1993-1996; 1986-1989

Short Bio
Judith Tannenbaum is a writer and teacher whose work has focused on community arts and issues of cultural democracy. She currently serves as training coordinator for San Francisco’s WritersCorps program (see www.writerscorps.org). Judith has taught poetry through California Poets in the Schools; at San Quentin and at prisons across the country; in a cross-age, community, poetry program she created; and with gifted teen-agers at UC Berkeley. She has also been keynote speaker and on panels at many conferences on prison and prison arts.  Judith lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and is the mother of one adult daughter.

Contact Information
jtannen@earthlink.net
www.judithtannenbaum.com