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Specialty Subjects : Memoir, Spirituality, Wellness, Travel and Lifestyle

Book Credits : Author: Twirling in a Beam of Light: A Woman's Life in Poetry, 2024 Co-author: Please Don't Cut the Baby! A Nurse's Memoir, 2024; Don't Get Scammed, Get Smart: Seven Simple Steps to Becoming a Savvy Consumer, 2019 Contributor: National Geographic's Walking New York; NG's Sacred Places of a Lifetime; NG's Jouneys of a Lifetime Editor: Happenstance, 2024; This Penis Business, 2024; Last Prisoner of Little Bighorn; The Magic Purple Potion, 2024; Sing for the Red Dress, 2024, The Wolf and the Crow, 2024; Rusty and Emma's Big Shock, 2023; Falling Up in the City of Angles, 2023; Suspension, 2023; A Human Mosaic: Heal, Renew, and Develop Self-Worth, 2019; Addiction on Trial: Tragedy in Downeast Maine, 2013; Uncommon H.O.P.E.: A Powerful Guide to Creating an Extraordinary Life, 2010; The Shadow of Death: Encyclopedia of the United States in the Twentieth Century, 1996;The Holocaust in Lithuania, 1992; and many other books that were ghostwritten, published privately or for limited circulation; and never published.

Enter your professional bio here : After receiving a Master's degree with a specialization in poetry from the Creative Writing program at the University of Illinois, Chicago, 50 years ago, Judy Kirkwood was mystified as to how to put that expertise into practice; then realized all writing can, and maybe should, be informed by poetry. A prize-winning author of hundreds of articles on travel, lifestyle, health, personality and business profiles for dozens of magazines and websites, as well as a 45-year veteran editor, ghostwriter and co-author, and book doctor/midwife for both fiction and nonfiction, she is co-author most recently of Please Don't Cut the Baby! A Nurse's Memoir (Feb 2024 Lucid House Publishing), with Marilyn Fayre Milos. Judy works closely with Lucid House Publishing as Executive Editor, editing, writing marketing copy, and promoting LHP books, including the Smokey River Suspense Series by Joseph Marshall III, perhaps the country's most prolific Native (Lakota) writer. Judy has been a speaker on panels at ASJA, an award-winning former member of Society of American Travel Writers and Midwest Travel Writers Association, and intrepid book festival and conference goer. A midwesterner by birth and temperament, Judy resides in Delray Beach, Florida, Madison, Wisconsin, Chicago, Illinois, and Baja California Sur, Mexico. She has returned to her poetry roots with Twirling in a Beam of Light: A Woman's Life in Poetry (Oct 1, 2024, Lucid House Publishing).

Writing Credits : AARP, American Way, Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, Brides, Celebrated Living, Christian Science Monitor, Continental inflight, Country Living, Destination Weddings and Honeymoons, Discover, Distinction, Executive Traveler, Golf for Women, Healing Lifestyles, Hemispheres/United, More, Mothering, National Geographic Traveler, National Wildlife, New Physicians, Reader's Digest, Simply the Best (contributing writer), Sky/Delta inflight, thirdage.com (contributing writer), eldercarelink.com, huffingtonpost.com, shine.yahoo.com, RD.com (readers digest), Travelandleisure.com, womenswallstreet.com, yourtango.com, dozens of local and regional print and web pubs

Skills (Select all that apply) : Advertorials, Articles, Blog posts, Books, Communications strategy, Content marketing, Copywriting, Editing, Essays, Feature writing, Ghostwriting, Grant writing, Op-Ed, Profiles, Publicity, Q&A, Social media, Web copy