Judith Sanders has published two poetry collections, In Deep and The Universe with Borscht. Her work appears in journals such as Pleiades, Calyx, The American Scholar, and Modern Language Studies; on the websites Vox Populi, Humor Darling, and Full Grown People; and in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Her poems won the Hart Crane Prize and the Wergle Flomp Humor Poetry Contest. Her writing has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and selected as a Longreads “Top 5.” She earned a B.A. in literature from Yale, an M.A. in creative writing from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in English from Tufts. She taught English at universities and independent schools, and in France on a Fulbright Fellowship. She lives in Pittsburgh.