Judith Ortiz Cofer
© Heinemann 2011 
Photograph by Melissa Cooperman

 

Judith Ortiz Cofer is the author of A Love Story Beginning in Spanish:  Poems (2005); Call Me Maria (2006), a young adult novel; The Meaning of Consuelo (2003), a novel; Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000), a collection of essays; An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995), a collection of short stories; The Line of the Sun (1989), a novel; Silent Dancing (1990), a collection of essays and poetry; two books of poetry, Terms of Survival (1987) and Reaching for the Mainland (1987); and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993).  Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Southern Review, Glamour and other journals. Her work has been included in numerous textbooks and anthologies including: Best American Essays 1991, The Norton Book of Women's Lives, The Norton Introduction to Literature, The Norton Introduction to Poetry, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, The Pushcart Prize, and the O. Henry Prize Stories.

Judith Ortiz Cofer is currently the Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.  .

New and forthcoming books :

 Lessons From A Writer’s Life:  essays, poems, exercises and strategies for writers, Heinemann Books, March 2011
 
If I Could Fly, a novel, Farrar Straus, and Giroux, May 2011.
 
A Bailar! Let’s Dance!, a picture book, University of Houston, Arte Publico Press, 2011.
 
The Poet Upstairs, a picture book, University of Houston, Arte Publico Press, 2012.