Judith Ortiz Cofer

Born: 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico

• Judith Ortiz Cofer is a published poet, novelist, and essayist.

  • She writes mainly about the experience of living in Puerto Rico and being Puerto Rican

• She earned the title Regents and Franklin Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Georgia

  • She has taught literature in UGA since 1984

• Although she was born in Puerto Rico, she has lived in Georgia for most of her life

• Some of her best published works are in collections such as

  • "Best American Essays"

  • "Best American Short Stories"

  • "The Norton Book of Women's Lives"

  • "The Norton Introduction to Poetry"

• Today she lives on her husband's farm in Louisville, Georgia