Join us for a reading and talk with writer Judith Barrington, winner of the 2013 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize. Judith is the author of five poetry collections, two poetry chapbooks, the Lambda Book Award-winning Lifesaving: A Memoir, and a text on writing literary memoir.

Judith Barrington was born in 1944 in Brighton, England, and moved to the United States in 1976. Her most recent book is Long Love: New and Selected Poems, 1985–2017 (Salmon Poetry, 2018). Her poems and memoirs have been published in literary journals including Creative Nonfiction, Narrative Magazine, Prairie Schooner, Kenyon Review, and The Chattahoochee Review.

She has collaborated with artist Steve Tilden to create a metal sculpture and a sequence of poems for an exhibition of work focused on horses, and with New York sculptor Nancy Azara on an artist's book exhibited at Soho's Donahue/Sosinski Gallery. She wrote the librettos for Mother of Us All and Dreamers: A Winter Solstice Extravaganza (music by David York), and several of her poems have been set to music by composers including Salvador Brotons, Margaret Moore, and Christopher Michael Wicks.

For several years, Judith taught at the low-residency MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Alaska Anchorage. She is the co-founder of The Flight of the Mind Writing Workshops and one of the founders of Soapstone, which celebrates and supports the work of women writers.

This event is part of the Center for Creativity's "In Our Own Write" program for LGBTQ+ elder (age 50+) writers and is open to everyone in the Pitt community.