Judy Benowitz

Judy Benowitz has an MA in Professional Writing from Kennesaw State University, in Georgia and a BA in Drama from the University of California, Irvine. Her many TV, Stage, and Screen Credits include Archie’s Place, starring Carroll O’Connor at CBS Studios in Los Angeles, and The Gong Show, a Chuck Barris Production. Benowitz appeared in The University of Southern California Cinema’s Boy with Wings. She played Rosie Alvarez on stage at The Laguna Forum’s Bye Bye Birdie, in Laguna Beach, California. Her publishing credits include the following:

Anthologies:

“Nursing Home Cafeteria,” Deborah Ford’s Grits (Girls Raised in the South), Friends are Forevah, published by Dutton.

“Ivah Ree’s Fixer Upper,” Brush Brooms and Straw Ticks, Hometown Memories Publishing Company, Hickory, North Carolina.

Magazines:

Atlanta Jewish Times, “My Son the Actor,” http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/my-son-the-actor/

The Walton Tribune, “A WAVE’s Story: Ivah Ree Harris Served Her Country”

http://www.waltontribune.com/article_611db83c-ec47-11e8-ac4c-ebe361a2b0a6.html

Ivah Ree Harris Coker | National Women's History Museum

“Buck,” The Georgia Writers Association’s digital magazine, The Georgia Authority. https://www.joomag.com/…/the-georgia-wr…/0965678001425527058 p.38

“Cattle Rustlers,” The Georgia Writers Association’s digital magazine, The Georgia Authority. Published by Issuu · · August 10, 2016

“Boater-head,” won first place in the Georgia Writers Museum’s 2015 Creative Writing Contest.

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/marilyn/

Books:

“The Ties that Bind,” is a forward to the book, Heroically Well Adjusted, by Greg Langford, Amazon publishing.

"Zoom Passover," Bartow History Museum.

https://bartowhistorymuseum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/84591465-6294-4508-8B3D-497797977524

She is also writing her memoir, where many of her short essays originate.

Capstone, Kennesaw State University

Benowitz, Judy, "Highway 11: A Memoir" (2017). Master of Arts in Professional Writing Capstones. 20.

http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/mapw_etd/20

Honors:

2016 Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges, Kennesaw State University, in Georgia.

Website:

judybenowitz.com

My book which is a collection of essays about my family dating from the plantation to modern day. Enjoy

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https://www.amazon.com/Descendants-Judy-Benowitz/dp/1943658943/