Judy Goldman is the author of eight books — four memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry.
Her latest memoir, The Rest of Our Lives, was released from Blair in May 2025.
Child (University of South Carolina Press) was a Katie Couric Media Must-Read for 2022, finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Nonfiction, and 2022’s #1 bestselling nonfiction book at Park Road Books in Charlotte.
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) was named a best book of 2019 by Real Simple, an Editor’s Pick on Amazon, 2019 best-seller at Park Road Books, and received a starred review from Library Journal.
Losing My Sister (John F. Blair) was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Nonfiction and Foreword Review’s Memoir of the Year, as well as 2012’s #1 bestselling nonfiction book at Park Road Books.
The Slow Way Back (William Morrow) was a finalist for the Southern Book Prize in Fiction and winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole First Fiction Award from the NC Literary and Historical Association.
Wanting to Know the End (Silverfish Review Press) won the Gerald Cable Poetry Award, Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Award from the NC Literary and Historical Association, Brockman-Campbell Poetry Award, and Oscar Arnold Young Poetry Award.
Her work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Real Simple, LitHub, Charlotte Observer, Our State, in many anthologies, and in literary journals such as The Southern Review, Gettysburg Review, Ohio Review, Kenyon Review, Black Warrior Review, Quarterly West, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, etc.
She received the Hobson Award for Distinguished Achievement in Arts and Letters, Fortner Writer and Community Award for “outstanding generosity to other writers and the larger community,” and Irene Blair Honeycutt Lifetime Achievement Award from Central Piedmont Community College.
She was born and raised in Rock Hill, SC. She and her husband live in Charlotte, NC. They have two married children and four grandchildren.
About Judy (brief)
Judy Goldman has published eight award-winning books — four memoirs, two novels, and two collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, Real Simple, LitHub, Our State, Charlotte Observer, and in many anthologies and literary journals. Born and raised in Rock Hill, SC, she lives in Charlotte, NC.