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Judi D. Winters
ALLi Author Member
Location: United States of America (the)
Genres: Literary Fiction, New Adult, Other Poetry, Humour, Romance
Skills: Performance/Spoken Word, Press/Media Interview, Reading/Literary Event, Self-publishing Workshop/Training, Speaking Engagement/Lecture, Writing Workshop
Judi D. Winters has been a community/civic activist since kindergarten. She often fills out the occupation line of medical forms, as a political activist, especially when the doctors are friends. Her desire to improve the quality of life for those around her and her commitment to community service has carried her into adulthood.
A graduate of Teachers College, Columbia University, her teaching experience range from nursery school music teacher to university teaching assistant. Although retired, she maintains an active private practice working with high school, and post-graduate students with their applications as well as adults.
Teaching allowed Ms. Winters to perfect her presentation delivery for multiple ages and managing prickly audiences effortlessly. Winters not only majored in Education but also focused on the performing arts, with concentrations in Theatre and English. Her first novel, Adventures in Time, written in fifth grade, included sojourns to Topsy-Turvy Land and The Mushroom Planet. It is a child’s posthumous tribute to H.G. Wells. Two children’s musicals produced and written by Winters, have been publicly performed. A third musical based upon an Irish myth and set in modern-day Harlem and a two-hander comedy Pinky about a reclaimed and subsequently lost friendship, along with several drafts of children’s books, are projects awaiting the completion of Fish on a Leash, a first- person nonfiction account of the greatest scandal in American educational history that took place in her hometown of Roslyn, in 2004.
Ms. Winters skips between two islands-Long Island, New York and Key West, Florida and has found a home with the talented members of the Key West Writers Guild. As a world traveler with a global perspective, the reach of her far-flung blogs was unlimited. They’ve stretched from the world’s highest internet café on Mount Everest, over The Alps, and across the Big Blue Pond, even from the heart of darkness–the wilds of the Peruvian Amazon jungle. She has created several multi-sensory travelogue presentations, capturing a wide-eyed and ever-widening audience.
Judi D. Winters' books
The Ridiculous Horny Snail An Ode in Two Acts
The Ridiculous Horny Snail, An Ode in Two Acts, my illustrated adult book has just been released upon an unwary public. The story originated with an ongoing prompt word exercise created by the Key West Writers Guild. The snails are original residents of Key West, and their adventures take them all over an island that advertises itself as home to One Human Family. Due to the sophisticated language—educative (scientifically correct), humorous, and subtly nuanced, it is not a children's picture book (nor is it pornographic). The target audience are adults and mature young people who appreciate beautiful language and exquisite art, in the form of a prose poem. The story highlights the ups and downs of a snail’s life cycle, whimsically parallelling and touching upon the universality of human relationships and emotions. It has been designed as a special occasion gift, souvenir, guest room welcome or coffee table book.
The Ukrainian born, and trained, Toronto resident Olha Tkachenko’s illustrations surround the stanzas with a brilliant light. The Ridiculous Horny Snail is a delightful, talk-about book of life told through art and poetry.
The book opens with a Storyteller’s Note on how Ms. Winters brought life to the words, and closes with an explanation of The Ridiculously Colorful (totally factual) Life Cycle of Gastropods. As an educator and academic, her goal for over fifty years has been to impress upon students that to write well means you have to read well. Hopefully, readers will return again and again, experiencing a different read upon each return visit, joining with, and building One Human Family.