Judith Pacht is the author of two collections, Infirmary for a Private Soul (Tebot Bach, 2019) and Summer Hunger (Tebot Bach, 2010), winner of the 2011 PEN Southwest Book Award for Poetry. She has published four chapbooks, the most recent being A Cumulus Fiction (Finishing Line Press, 2019). She was the first-place winner of the Georgia Poetry Society's Edgar Bowers competition and earned honorable mentions in 2007 in both the Frost Award and Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize competitions. A three-time Pushcart nominee, her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Runes, Cider Press Review and Foreign Literature (Russia), among other journals, and in numerous anthologies. Based in Los Angeles, Pacht has taught political poetry at the Denver annual LitFest and at UCLA Extension.