Autor/-in: Judy Bebelaar

For 37 years, Judy Bebelaar enjoyed teaching in the San Francisco public high schools, and she especially loved teaching creative writing. Her students won many awards, both locally and on the national level, including the National Scholastic Writing Contest. In 2000, when eight of her students became winners, Judy was awarded a national prize from Scholastic to honor the excellence of her teaching. Judy's poetry has been published widely in magazines, anthologies, and a chapbook, Walking Across the Pacific (2014, Finishing Line Press). A full-length book of her poetry, Sky Holding Fall (Blue Light Press), was published in 2023. And Then They Were Gone: Teenagers of Peoples Temple from High School to Jonestown (Sugartown Press, 2018), a nonfiction book written with fellow teacher Ron Cabral, has won ten honors and awards including Ron and Judy being named San Francisco Library Laureates.