Carolina Ghost Woods

Judy Jordan (born 1961) is an American poet who grew up on a small farm near the Carolina border as the child of sharecroppers, becoming the first in her family to attend university with degrees from the University of Virginia and the University of Utah. SIU CV. Her most notable works include Carolina Ghost Woods (2000), which won the Walt Whitman Award (1999) and National Book Critics Circle Award (2000), as well as Sixty Cent Coffee and a Quarter to Dance (2005) and Hunger (2018); she teaches at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and lives off-grid in the Shawnee National Forest.Poets.org, SIU CV.