Judy Lightfoot, PhD
Biography
Email: judylightfoot
at earthlink.net
Judy Lightfoot’s many articles and reviews appear
regularly in Crosscut and have been published in
the Los Angeles Times, Seattle
newspapers, and elsewhere. In 2000 she received an award from the Seattle Arts
Commission and was honored for Excellence in Journalism by the Society of
Professional Journalists, an honor repeated in 2009. Her poetry appeared in
many publications, and a chapbook of her poems, Calling the Crow, was
published by Brooding Heron Press in 1998. Lightfoot is
fascinated by the resources and resistances of the English sentence and by the generative
tensions between ordinary speech and the poetic line.
Dr. Lightfoot taught English at Seattle’s
Lakeside School
for many years, where she won several national teaching awards, and for several
years at colleges including four years at the University
of Washington. She was also the Founding
Head of Eastside Preparatory School, which opened near Seattle
in 2003 and graduated its first class of seniors in 2009. Throughout that time
she was a regular reviewer of education proposals for the National Endowment of
the Humanities and led many workshops for teachers
at American and international schools on teaching the traditional academic
disciplines as “thinking tools” - instruments of intellectual
inquiry.
Besides writing for Crosscut now, Lightfoot serves as a Freestyle Volunteer, meeting weekly for
coffee at cafés with individuals who share our public spaces but are socially
isolated by mental illness or homelessness. She is also a volunteer and board
member at Plymouth Healing Communities and a volunteer
tutor. She lives in Seattle with
her husband and favorite critic, the poet Robert McNamara.
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