Judy H. Montgomery

Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in the Gyroscope, Poet Lore, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. She’s been awarded several residencies and fellowships, and multiple nominations for a Pushcart prize. Her chapbook Passion received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Red Jess, a finalist for several national first book prizes, appeared in 2006. Her second full-length collection, Litany for Wound and Bloom, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Prize, appeared in 2018. Her prize-winning narrative medicine chapbook, Mercy (2019), was followed by The Ferry Keeper, which appeared in 2024 as the winner of the Grayson Books Chapbook Competition.