Judy earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from Kansas University and a Masters in Counseling from The University of Missouri, Columbia. She worked as a social worker, teacher and school counselor.
She won the 2009 Langston Hughes Award for Creative Writing for an excerpt from her recently completed novel and was a Pushcart Nominee for the short story “Click” published in Coal City Review 24:2007. Her short short “Before You Understand—After Diane Williams” was published in Coal City Review 21:2006.
She has traveled in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia, and lives in Lawrence, Kansas and Hilton Head, South Carolina.
Judy Bauer 