Juditha Dowd's verse biography, AUDUBON'S SPARROW, is told in the voice of Lucy Bakewell Audubon, the remarkable but little-known wife of naturalist John James Audubon. Through letters, diary entries, and dramatic monologues, it follows the couple through the extraordinary early years of their long relationship, a journey marked by heroism, poverty and perseverance amidst the constant challenges of the 19th century American frontier. An illuminating back-story for what was to become Audubon's masterwork, The Birds of America. Available at Bookshop.org, Amazon, or your favorite bookstore.
Juditha is the author of Mango in Winter, a full-length poetry collection, as well as poetry chapbooks, short fiction, lyric essays and reviews. She reads with the Cool Women ensemble in the New York-New Jersey-Philadelphia area and occasionally on the west coast.
