Judith Kerman (born New York, 1945)^[1] is a poet, publisher, academic, and translator in the U.S. and active from the 1970s.^[1]

Kerman earned her B.A. with honors from the University of Rochester in 1967 and her M.A. (1973) and Ph.D. (1977) both from the University of Buffalo.^[2] In 2002, she was a Fulbright senior scholar to the Dominican Republic.^[3][4][5][6]

She was a university professor and dean of Arts and Behavioral Sciences^[7] and is now a professor emerita of English at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan.^[8][2]

She founded Earth's Daughters magazine in Buffalo, New York (1971 to present) and founded and runs Mayapple Press (1978 to present)^[9] in Woodstock, New York.^[10]

She is vice chair of the Woodstock, New York, Planning Board.^[2]

An electronic literature (hypertext poem) version of Mothering was published in the Eastgate Systems quarterly review in 1995, and was issued as a paper book, Mothering and Dreams of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1996).^[11]

She wrote the content for a poem authoring system Colloquy, (implemented by Robert Chiles). This was an early generative poem that produced 17-line standzs and were "hypertexts where every word is an anchor and every path limited in length and non-retraceable."^[12]

Kerman's graphic poem series, Migrations, (1987) are short poems presented for a computer screen.^[13]

• Obsessions (Intrepid Press, Beau Fleuve Series, 1974)
• The Jakoba Poems (White Pine Press, 1976)
• Mothering (Uroboros/Allegheny Mtn Press, 1978)
• Driving for Yellow Cab (Tout Press, 1985)
• Three Marbles (Cranberry Tree Press, 1999) Mothering & Dream of Rain (Ridgeway Press, 1997)
• Plane Surfaces/Plano de Incidencia (Mayapple Press, 2002)
• A Woman in Her Garden: Selected Poems of Dulce Maria Loynaz (White Pine Press, 2002)
• Galvanic Response (March Street Press, 2005) Postcards from America (Post Traumatic Press, 2015)
• Aleph, broken: Poems from My Diaspora (Broadstone Books, 2016)^[14]
• definitions (Fomite Press, 2021)^[2][3]

• 32 Poems, Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women, Driftwood, MacGuffin, Salt Hill

• Book: Praises & Offenses: Three Women Poets from the Dominican Republic by Aida Cartagena Portalatin, Angela Hernandez Núñez, Ylonka Nacidit Perdomo, translated from the Spanish (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2009, published as a Lannan Selection).^[15]
• Entre Dos Silencios/Between Two Silences: Short Fiction by Hilma Contreras (Mayapple Press, 2013)^[3]

• Abbie M. Kopps Poetry Prize; Honorable Mention, Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award.^[3]