ABOUT ME

I'm Judith and I write book reviews, magazine articles, kids' books, short stories, and, because I love history, I write history essays and other stuff!

This blog began as a home for book reviews I have written, most of which were published in my column in the Halifax Herald in Nova Scotia, Canada. After their moment in the sun, they can hang out here and perhaps be read yet again. 

In 2019, I went back to school to study history at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. After five years, I have an honours BA (with distinction) and an MA, both in history. 

In 2025, a short essay of mine, "The People Next Door", appeared in Intersections, a journal of the Canadian Historical Association (Summer 2025). 

A longer essay, "Denying Home: Canadian Exceptionalism and 

Indigenous Relocation," appears in Dwelling on the Margins

of Empire: Colonized and Indigenous Peoples' Imaginaries 

of Home, edited by Dr Lisa Binkley, (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025). 

In 2007, I wrote Gracie The Public Gardens Duck, which is published by Nimbus (Halifax, Nova Scotia) and beautifully illustrated by Richard Rudnicki.  Gracie has proved to be a popular children's book and is on the recommended reading list for children at the Department of Ornithology at Cornell University, Cornell, N.Y.