Judyth Hill

Judyth Hill, poet, maestra, editor, authored the internationally acclaimed poem, Wage Peace.

Educated at Sarah Lawrence College; she studied with Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, and Deep-Ecologist, Dolores LaChapelle. Her nine published books of poetry include Hardwired for Love, Dazzling Wobble, and Writing Down the Moon. Her poems are widely anthologized. Her new collection of poems, An Episode of Ravish, is currently out for consideration.

Hill is Chair of the PEN International Women Writers Committee, Managing Editor of the hybrid publishing company, Wild Rising Press, Special Projects Director for the San Miguel Writers Conference, and an Anusara Yoga Special Subjects instructor.

Originator of the poetry process, WildWriting, Hill conducts poetry and memoir workshops at conferences world 'round and on Zoom; she leads Muse on the Move literary/culinary adventures in Taos, NM, Slovenia, Ireland, and Mexico.

Hill is the recipient of grants from the Witter Bynner Poetry Foundation, McCune Foundation, and New Mexico Endowment for the Humanities. She authored poetry curriculum for the O’Keeffe and Folk Art Museums in Santa Fe, NM and served from 1994 to 2000 as Literary Projects Coordinator for New Mexico Arts, a division of the NM State Office of Cultural Affairs.

Hill stands in consonance with Rainer Maria Rilke: “To praise is the whole thing…” She offers poets the opportunity to explore the territory that breathes between this world and themselves, between heart and hand, pen and paper, and the skills to expand that territory.

Judyth was described by the St. Helena Examiner as, "Energy with skin” and by the Denver Post as, “A tigress with a pen.