Judith H. Montgomery

My Husband Gasps, and Must Be Helped
from the Dinner Table

I thought

we had

more time—

Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in the Gyroscope, Poet Lore, and Epiphany, among other journals. She’s been awarded several residencies and fellowships, and has received multiple nominations for a Pushcart prize. Her chapbook Passion received the Oregon Book Award for Poetry. Her second full-length collection, Litany for Wound and Bloom, a finalist for the Marsh Hawk Prize, appeared in 2018.  Her prize-winning narrative medicine chapbook, Mercy, appeared from Wolf Ridge Press in 2019. Her new chapbook, The Ferry Keeper, received the 2024 Grayson Books Chapbook Competition prize, and will appear in June 2024.