Dr. Judy Rowe Michaels received her Ph.D. in English from Bryn Mawr College in 1974. She is poet in residence and an English teacher at Princeton Day School in Princeton, New Jersey. She has published two books on teaching poetry and writing and two collections of poems. She has survived five incidents of ovarian cancer. She has been awarded three poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Arts Council and nominated for two Pushcart Prizes. She is a member of the nine-women performance and critique group, Cool Women.
