My plays include “Counter-Terrorism,” Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2004 winner, “Heaven’s Hold,” produced at Brava! Theatre, S.F. and 2001 National Black Theater Festival in Winston-Salem, “The Kinship,” directed by Ernest Abuba at Basement Workshop, NYC, “Fat Women at Lunch” performed at Womanbooks, NYC, ”Knocked Up,”[co-written] a commedia dell’Arte about abortion that tours periodically with the SF Mime Troupe, “Life is a Carousel” Marsh Café, SF, and March 2007, Mid-America Theatre Conference, Minneapolis, “A Moment of Silence” Laney College, and farces “Famine,” “The History of Sweat” and “Samaritan-ism” at Julia Morgan Theater, Berkeley.

I received my MFA and BA from San Francisco State University and two fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts where I was a poet-in-the-schools.

Poetry has appeared in Obsidian II, 13th Moon, The Croton Review, The Passaic Review, Lips, Rooms, Paterson Literary Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, The Aquarian, Drumvoices Revue 2000, and widely online. Fiction has been published in Crab Orchard Review, Rooms, Good News.

Winning Writers
This prose poem, "Bruno was from Brazil," touches on life in Oakland and the n-word. It's followed by a detailed critique by the editor who published it.

American Poetry
Poems by Judy Juanita appear here.

Theodicy at Playwrights Center of SF
My latest play "Theodicy" had a reading in SF recently.

Laney College paper interview
Interview about teaching college English and writing of play, "Counter Terrorism."