Judy
Halebsky

Judy Halebsky grew up in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She has a B.A. from Mount Allison University and an M.F.A. from Mills College. After graduating, Judy taught English and career skills at the English Center for International Women and Literature and Composition at Dominican University. She then studied sculpture and calligraphy at the Kanazawa College of Art in Japan on a research scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Education. Currently, Judy is working towards a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis, and living in Sacramento, California.

Her creative work includes visual, sound and print poetry. She has created visual poetry installations at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Metro Theatre. Her collaborative performance texts have been staged at Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco and 21 Grand in Oakland. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Five Fingers Review, Eleven Eleven {1111} and Grain Magazine. She was recently awarded a MacDowell Colony Fellowship.

Judy's Salon writings to date are:
 
Down The Mountain
Found Poem: The Moss Garden
Magnolia
Red Hollow
Whale Music