Judith Goldman earned a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University in 2007. Her collections of poetry include Vocoder (2001), DeathStar/rico-chet (2006), and the chapbook The Dispossessions (2009).
The poems in DeathStar/rico-chet address the political, post-9/11 world, partly through the use of found material and fragmented language. Poet Joyelle McSweeney, in a Rain Taxi review, commented on the ways in which Goldman writes about intensely contemporary culture: “one approach sets up a conceptual or formal framework that brings attentive pressure to bear on grimly mundane content; the other rejects conventional frameworks and concocts a parallel system of language at once as violent, arbitrary, and paradoxically prophetic of a fait accompli as a highlight reel of daily carnage on the evening news.”
With the late Leslie Scalapino she co-edited the journal War and Peace,and was co-editor of Krupskaya Press (2002-03). She was a Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty of the Poetics program at the University at Buffalo.