Judy Goldman is the author of two award-winning poetry collections and two novels, EARLY LEAVING and THE SLOW WAY BACK, which was a finalist for SIBA’s Novel of the Year and winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction. Her memoir, LOSING MY SISTER, was a finalist for both SIBA’s Memoir of the Year and ForeWord Review‘s Memoir of the Year. Her work has appeared in Real Simple, The Washington Post and in many literary journals. She teaches writing workshops throughout the Southeast, and serves on the permanent faculty of Table Rock Writers Workshop. Born and raised in Rock Hill, South Carolina, Goldman has lived in Charlotte, North Carolina, for many years. She and her husband have two children and four grandchildren.

Books by Judy Goldman

Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap

by Judy Goldman - Memoir, Nonfiction

When Judy Goldman’s husband of almost four decades has a routine spinal injection to alleviate back pain, he is instantly paralyzed from the waist down --- a phenomenon no doctor can explain or undo. She’s forced to take over, navigating the byzantine medical world they suddenly find themselves in. Her husband is forced to give in. This is the starting point for TOGETHER, which looks at the changes every couple faces --- the slow, ordinary ones brought about by time and the sudden, dramatic ones that take us by surprise. Identities shift; roles switch. How do we adjust? How do we let go of the if-onlys?

Early Leaving: A Novel

by Judy Goldman

The Slow Way Back

by Judy Goldman