Judith kitchen biography
Judith Kitchen attended college in Vermont.
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Excavating a Life
Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses, is a collection of linked essays by Sonja Livingstonand the If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book selection for 2016.
For the next few weeks, Sonja will be here for readings, signings and discussions at Writers & Books, local libraries, schools, colleges and bookstores.
Sonja is from the Rochester area, and divides her time between Rochester and the University of Memphis, where she teaches writing.
The daughter of a single mother and one of seven children (with five different fathers), Sonya has also written a memoir, Ghostbread, about growing up in poverty in the Rochester slums and on the Tonawanda Reservation.
When I read the dedication page of Queen of the Fall,I was surprised and delighted to see this: “For my mothers, actual and acquired, and In memory of Judith Kitchen.”
I wondered: Does Sonja look upon Judith as a mother figure, a kind of midwife who helped So