Judy Leserman*

Judy Leserman is a writer and translator living in New York City. She is a current MFA candidate in poetry at George Mason University, where she was a 2023 Cheuse Center International Writer Fellow. She is the author of the chapbook When Spring Could Be Anyone (Aquila Review, 2024) and her writing has found gracious homes in Impossible Task and Juste Literary, among others. In addition to her studies, Judy works as an assistant editor for Poetry Daily, co-director of Translation Festival and Programs at the Cheuse International Writer’s Center, and as a speech-language pathologist.

Judy is on the Beit Midrash Program +Core Semikha Track Class of 2030