About
I write lyric nonfiction and am at work on a book of collected essays. My work has appeared in AGNI, Southern Humanities Review, Fourth Genre, Off Assignment, New Delta Review, River Teeth, and elsewhere. My essays have won the Steinberg Memorial Essay Prize in 2023 and recently were finalists for The Georgia Review Prose Prize, The Kenyon Review Short Nonfiction Contest, and The Stories Out of School flash contest held in partnership between the Academy of Teachers and A Public Space. My essay, “Near the Hollows,” was listed as Notable in Best American Essays 2023 and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. I am a Jack Hazard Fellow through the New Literary Project via the University of California, Berkeley, which supports full-time high school teachers in their creative writing pursuits. I teach English at a public high school in Maryland, where I live with my husband and two children.
Monica Judge 