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Judy Light Ayyildiz, a graduate of the Hollins University Creative Writing Program, has taught creative writing to all education levels. As a graduate of the Marshall University Teachers College with a major in voice, she spent many years in classrooms and on stage as performer, director, and conductor. She has been an instructor and presenter at literary workshops, international conferences on poetry, writing, and women’s studies. Internationally published and translated, she was an editor of Artemis, Artists and Writers from the Blue Ridge for 13 years, a Blue Ridge Writers Conference founder, President of the Medical Auxiliary and founder/director of the acclaimed RAMA Chorus. Author of 11 books in 5 genres include Forty Thorns a novel ( Judy Light Ayyildiz, a graduate of the Hollins University Creative Writing Program, has taught creative writing to all education levels. As a graduate of the Marshall University Teachers College with a major in voice, she spent many years in classrooms and on stage as performer, director, and conductor. She has been an instructor and presenter at literary workshops, international conferences on poetry, writing, and women’s studies. Internationally published and translated, she was an editor of Artemis, Artists and Writers from the Blue Ridge for 13 years, a Blue Ridge Writers Conference founder, President of the Medical Auxiliary and founder/director of the acclaimed RAMA Chorus. Author of 11 books in 5 genres include Forty Thorns a novel (translated into Turkish), poetry Mud River, and memoir Nothing but Time, A Triumph over Trauma.New York Quarterly, Mickle Street Review, the new renaissance, Sow’s Ear, Pig Iron Press, Hawaii Pacific Review, Black Water Review, Northeast Journal, Kalliope, The McGuffin, the Nazim Hikmet Festival Chapbook. Judy was featured in professional biographies in Women in Dialogue, an international anthology, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, and in Kirklareli’ni Gecmisten Gelecege Tasiyanlar (Outstanding Persons Who Have Come and Gone in Kirklareli,Turkey) by historian Nazif Karacam, and story translated into Italian in the anthology, International Women Writing Today, Rubbettino Editore, 2007. Honors include YWCA Women of Achievement in Education, Virginia Commission of the Arts grants, various poetry short story prizes, Daughters of Ataturk award, Turkish Forum award, College Bookstores Best Book nominee, Gusto Poet Discovery Winner, VCCA Fellow, and JPX International Literary Novel 1st Place. A volume of poetry Intervals, Appalachia to Istanbul is forthcoming spring 2015. Judy has been married for over 50 years to a surgeon. She and her husband, Vedii, have three talented and creative children and two extraordinary grandchildren. Judy is currently completing a memoir titled, The West Virginia Diet. ...more

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	Forty Thorns 3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nothing but Time: A Triumph over Trauma, 2nd Edition 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	First Annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival - A Chapbook of Talks and Poetry by Nâzım Hikmet, Kathryn Stripling Byer (Contributor), Greg Dawes (Contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Some of My Ancestors are Ottomans and Turks really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mud River by Judy Light Ayyildiz (Goodreads Author), K. Kamal Ayyildiz (Illustrator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1988 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Easy Ideas for Busy Teachers by Judy Light Ayyildiz (Goodreads Author), Frank Schaffer Publications, Rebekah Woodie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1996	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Creative writing across the curriculum (Teacher resource book for middle and upper grades) by Judy Light Ayyildiz (Goodreads Author), Rebekah Woodie 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Intervals, Applachia to Istanbul (Appalachian Poetry Series, #3) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Fjords Review (Volume 1, Issue 1) by Fjords Review, John Gosslee (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Oral History or Memoir?

I have published 11 books in 5 genres: novel, poetry, texts for teachers and students, children's book, and memoir.

The novel, Forty Thorns, is based on the oral history of woman who had lived through the history of the Balkan Wars, WWI, occupation and revolution and reclaiming of the land, the Turkish Republic and a lifetime thereafter. And so, I used everything she had said to me (researching it Read more of this blog post »

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Published on September 02, 2015 16:18 • Tags: fiction, memoir, oral-history

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“Courage is the highest virtue. You have to have more courage than fear to stand.”
― Judy Light Ayyildiz, Nothing but Time: A Triumph over Trauma, 2nd Edition

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“Courage is the highest virtue. You have to have more courage than fear to stand.”
― Judy Light Ayyildiz, Nothing but Time: A Triumph over Trauma, 2nd Edition

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