Judy Wells was born in San Francisco and raised in Martinez, California. She received her B.A. from Stanford University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. In addition to CALL HOME (Scarlet Tanager, 2005) and EVERYTHING IRISH (Scarlet Tanager, 1999), she has five books of poetry to her credit: I Have Berkeley; Albuquerque Winter; Jane, Jane; The Part-Time Teacher; and The Calling: Twentieth Century Women Artists. Judy is also co-editor, with Marsha Hudson, Bridget Connelly, Doris Earnshaw, and Olivia Eielson, of The Berkeley Literary Women's Revolution: Essays from Marsha's Salon (McFarland, 2005).