JUDY GOLDMAN is the author of nine books. Her work has appeared in USA Today, The Washington Post, LitHub, The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Kenyon Review, and Prairie Schooner, among others, and many anthologies. A finalist for the Southern Book Prize in nonfiction and in fiction, she has won the Sir Walter Raleigh Award, the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Fortner Writer and Community Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College, among others. A native of Rock Hill, South Carolina, she lives in Charlotte.