Judith Chalmer

Judith Chalmer is an American poet.

Life
Chalmers is Executive Director of VSA Arts Vermont, a nonprofit devoted to arts and disability inclusion, and is the creator of a dance/narrative with oral histories, "Clearing Customs/ Cruzando Fronteras/ Preselenje," on the lives of immigrants in central Vermont (1999), and author and performer of "Don't Go in There!" a 1-woman comedy on racial and ethnic consciousness in central Vermont (2002).

Chalmer's poems have appeared in more than 25 literary journals and anthologies. Out of History's Junk Jar: Poems of a mixed inheritance, her debut collection of poetry, was published in 1993 by Time Being Books. Her essays have appeared in anthologies such as Under Her Skin: How girls experience race in America, Urban Spaghetti, and Celebrating the Lives of Jewish Women: Patterns in a feminist sampler.

Recognition
Her poems have won 1st prize in the New England Writers' Association Annual Poetry Prize and honorable mention from the Pushcart Poetry Prize.