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.
Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal (finalist for 2022 Adrienne Rich Award), Kestrel, Presence, Poet Lore, New Verse News, Calyx, Valparaiso Review, and Rock & Sling. Poetry Daily and Verse Daily have featured poems in their anthologies.
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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 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.
