Judy Bebelaar is a retired San Francisco public high school teacher of English and creative writing. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in many literary journals, including Blue Lake Review, Canary, The Cape Rock, The Chaffin Journal, CQ (California Quarterly), decomP, Digital Paper, The Dos Passos Review, Folly, Front Range Review, Grasslimb, The Griffin, Harpur Palate, I-70 Review, Levure Littéraire,The Louisville Review, Many Mountains Moving, Meridian Anthology Of Contemporary Poetry, The Old Red Kimono, Pearl, Poem, Quercus Review, Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, RiverSedge, Rudolf’s Diner online magazine, Schuylkill Valley Journal Of The Arts, Ship of Fools, Sierra Nevada Review, Soundings East, Squaw Valley Review, Stickman Review, StringTown, Westview, Wild Violet, Willard & Maple, as well as the California Poets in the Schools anthologies True Wonders and Remembering What Happened. She is also the co-host of a reading series featuring Bay Area Writing Project teachers in Berkeley, California, and is currently at work on a book about experiences at an alternative school. She tied for first place and won two honorable mentions (of four) in the 2006 Pleasanton Cultural Arts Council Poetry Prose and Art Festival in California; was a finalist in Flyway’s Writing the Wild chapbook contest; and won two honorable mentions in the San Francisco American Pen Women’s Soul-making contest -- one for work featured in a women’s anthology, Turning a Train of Thought Upside Down (Scarlet Tanager Press 2012) and another in 2013. Her chapbook, Walking Across the Pacific, was published by Finishing Line Press in May.

All work by Judy Bebelaar