Judith Amber Arroyo Grande, CA

Judith Amber is a free-lance writer living on California’s Central Coast. Her article topics include food and wine, the environment, politics, travel, and the arts. She also writes creative non-fiction, satire/humor and poetry. Her work has been published in the San Luis Obispo Tribune (annual poetry contest and essay), Tolosa Press (creative non-fiction and short story), Transitions Abroad (online), The Oregonian, Oregon Coast Magazine, The New Times (San Luis Obispo) and the literary journals Talus and Scree and Fishtrap Anthology In 2017, she won second place in Arts Obispo’s Ingrid Reti Literary Awards for a personal essay. Many of her essays and creative non-fiction poke fun at society, life in California, politicians and herself. She would love to be a standup comedian but her memory is too compromised at her stage of life to make that happen. Perhaps a teleprompter would fix that. Her specialty is poems and essays about the challenges of aging that take a humorous approach, such essays “Fear of Bingo” and “Aging Isn’t for Sissies In 2017, she won second place in Arts Obispo’s Ingrid Reti Literary Awards for a personal essay. Many of her essays and creative non-fiction poke fun at society, life in California, politicians and herself. She would love to be a standup comedian but her memory is too compromised at her stage of life to make that happen. Perhaps a teleprompter would fix that. Her specialty is poems and essays about the challenges of aging that take a humorous approach, such essays “Fear of Bingo” and “Aging Isn’t for Sissies In 2017, she won second place in Arts Obispo’s Ingrid Reti Literary Awards for a personal essay. Many of her essays and creative non-fiction poke fun at society, life in California, politicians and herself. She would love to be a standup comedian but her memory is too compromised at her stage of life to make that happen. Perhaps a teleprompter would fix that. Her specialty is poems and essays about the challenges of aging that take a humorous approach, such essays “Fear of Bingo” and “Aging Isn’t for Sissies In 2017, she won second place in Arts Obispo’s Ingrid Reti Literary Awards for a personal essay. Many of her essays and creative non-fiction poke fun at society, life in California, politicians and herself. She would love to be a standup comedian but her memory is too compromised at her stage of life to make that happen. Perhaps a teleprompter would fix that. Her specialty is poems and essays about the challenges of aging that take a humorous approach, such essays “Fear of Bingo” and “Aging Isn’t for Sissies