Judith Reitman founded the precedent-setting North Carolina Women's Prison Writing and Performance Project at the Raleigh Correctional Center for Women in 2001. As its writing instructor, she guided intensive, weekly writing sessions for six years for women with histories of abuse and violence. Among the program's prestigious board members was Maya Angelou.
The program developed into the first prison performance project that allowed inmates to perform their original work publicly in theaters and schools. Judith was named a Fellow at the Jordan Institute for Children and Families, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; earned the Carolina Center for Public Service Award for her contributions to the understanding of women and violence, and the Independent Weekly's Special Achievement in the Humanities Award.
Kim S., Women's Prison Writing & Performance Project
Judith is the author of Stolen for Profit: The Disappearance of America’s Pets, a Dog Writers Association Book of the Year and winner of the Maxwell Ethics Medallion; Blood Legacy, featured as a Doubleday Book of the Month; and Bad Blood, a Book of the Month selection for which Judith was named among the “Ten Best Interview Broadcasts of National Public Radio.”
Judith has written for publications including The Atlantic, The Village Voice, Mother Jones, AARP The Magazine, Bonjour Paris. Her work has been cited by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Newsweek, the New York Post "Page 6," NPR, among other national media.
Judith taught journalism at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and at Quinnipiac University, Connecticut.
A program innovator, Judith created the Heart of Provence Writing and Photography Workshop in 2007 which ran for several seasons in Les Alpes de Haute Provence.
In 2017, she founded CrisisDogsNC, a nonprofit dog rescue, which she directed until early 2024.
Judith now lives in an old stone house in Vernet les Bains with her dogs Rosie and Lily May.
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