Poetry. "Here is Berkeley in all its glory. Wells paints a colorful, energetic, often witty portrait of a great city in which details of her personal life mix with those of other people, of streets, shops, crows, squirrels. There is a freshness to this poetry that is enormously appealing, and Wells writes with assurance and verve"--Marc Hofstadter

Author City: BERKELEY, CA USA

Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, California. She received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to CALL HOME (Scarlet Tanager, 2005) and EVERYTHING IRISH (Scarlet Tanager, 1999), she has five books of poetry to her credit: I Have Berkeley; Albuquerque Winter; Jane, Jane; The Part-Time Teacher; and The Calling: Twentieth Century Women Artists. Judy is also co-editor, with Marsha Hudson, Bridget Connelly, Doris Earnshaw, and Olivia Eielson, of The Berkeley Literary Women's Revolution: Essays from Marsha's Salon (McFarland, 2005).