Judith Arcana

Who is Judith Arcana?

Judith Arcana is an American writer of poems, stories, essays and books. She was a teacher for forty years and her writing has appeared in journals and anthologies since the early 1980s. She has been an activist for reproductive justice since spending two years in Chicago’s underground abortion service Jane Collective. Judith is notable for her insistence on the organically political nature of art and literature.

Born February 5, 1943 in Cleveland, Ohio, she is the daughter of Anne Solomon and Norman Rosenfield. Anne died in March,1944; the mother who raised Judith was Ida Epstein, who married Norman in July,1945. Mothering, perhaps as a consequence, has been one of Judith’s primary subjects. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon.