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Judith is a poet, fiction writer, and former journalist from Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY. She is currently the Director of Special Programming & Communications at NY Writers Coalition, a nonprofit based in Fort Greene that provides creative writing workshops for underserved and marginalized groups across NYC. She was previously a staff writer at Refinery29 where she covered work and money and edited the popular "Money Diaries" series. 

Prior to R29, Judith worked on staff at Cosmopolitan and Inc. magazines writing and editing stories about entrepreneurship, technology, and personal finance; she also served as an editorial fellow at The Atlantic on the "Sexes" and Health channels.

Judith has performed at Lincoln Center’s “Poets on the Plaza” summer reading series, is a 2023 Fellow with poet Shira Erlichman’s “portable creativity school” In Surreal Life (ISL), and her 2023 Best Microfiction story “Occur” can be found in the literary journal CHEAP POP.