Judith Cody's poetry won awards from Atlantic Monthly and Amelia magazines, was put forward for the Lyric Recovery Award, received several honorable mentions from the Emily Dickinson Poetry Award, among others. One of her poems, together with its historical chronicles, was inducted into the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institution's American History Museum. Her poems are published or are forthcoming in: Nimrod, New York Quarterly, South Carolina Poetry Review, Poet Lore, Cumberland Poetry Review, Xavier Review, Texas Review, Poem, Primavera, Phoebe, Louisville Review, Madison Review, Fox Cry Review, Eureka Literary Magazine, South Carolina Review, Confluence, Chaffin Review, Distillery, Soundings East, Phantasmagoria, Westview, Carquinez Poetry Review, Bathyspheric Review, and many others.
She has been anthologized in: The Anthology of Monterey Bay Poets, Words Upon the Waters (PEN), The Meridian Anthology of Poetry (forthcoming) ,The Miniature Anthology, Poetry Project IV, and others. Though Judith is throughly devoted to poetry, in her free time the poet is a certified Master Gardener. She volunteers her skills to teach modern and natural methods of growing crops and flowers to the people of her community, and is also known as an authority on how to grow organic roses. She composes award-winning chamber music, though music has been put aside for the moment while she continues her writing on a new book of poetry which is highlighted on her site (www.judithcody.com). It is her love of music that prompted her to write the critically successful composer biography and reference book, Vivian Fine: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press, 2002. Eight Frames Eight, a poetry collection, was recently released.