Judith Laura is a poet and author of both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels are the award-winning _Beyond All Desiring_ (2005), and _Three Part Invention_(2002). She is also author of two books of mixed genre, the award-winning _Goddess Spirituality for the 21st Century_(1997, 2008) and _She Lives! The Return of Our Great Mother_ (1989,1999,2010) and the nonfiction _Goddess Matters: The Mystical, Practical & Controversial_(2011). Her poems have appeared in many print and online journals including: Metropolitan, Pudding Magazine, Poetica, OALM, Broomstick, Facets Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, The Mid-America Poetry Review, Fiera Lingue, Soul Fountain, Poemeleon , and the anthologies Prayers to Protest (Pudding House 1998), A Pagan's Muse (Kensington/Citadel 2003), and Not What I Expected (Paycock 2007) Among the publications in which her short fiction has appeared are: Poetica, So Dark So Deep, Gemini Books' Jetstream line, HLFQ, and the anthology Hot & Bothered 3 (Arsenal Pulp Press 2001).