Judy Goldman

I’m the author of seven books — three memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. My new memoir,

Child: A Memoir

(published May 5, 2022, University of South Carolina Press), was named a “Must-Read Book in 2022” by Katie Couric Media.

My memoir, 

Together

: Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

, was published in 2019 (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday), and in paperback in 2020 (Anchor Books. Named one of best books of 2019 by Real Simple magazine. Starred review in Library Journal. Order today!

My first memoir, Losing My Sister, was a finalist for both SIBA’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review’s Memoir of the Year. My first novel, The Slow Way Back, was a finalist for SIBA’s Novel of the Year, winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction. My second book of poetry, Wanting To Know the End, won the Gerald Cable Poetry Prize, as well as the top three prizes for a book of poetry by a North Carolinian.

My work has appeared in The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, Crazyhorse, Real Simple magazine, and Our State magazine; my book reviews in The Washington Post and The Charlotte Observer; my commentaries on public radio in Chapel Hill and Charlotte. I received the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, the Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” and the Beverly D. Clark Author Award from Queens University. I live with my husband in Charlotte, NC. We have two married children and four grandchildren.