Please join us at the Kerouac House this Saturday night November 15, 2008 at 8:00PM for Judy Copeland’s Farewell Reading. She will be reading from the work she has done during her stay at the house. Following the reading she will answer questions about her writing and her stay at the house.

The Kerouac House is located at 1418 Clouser Street. Click here for a map.

Judy Copeland is a California attorney who left the law to backpack around Oceania, Asia, and Africa, staying with families she met along the way. Her travel stories have appeared in the Florida Review, Literal Latte, Water~Stone Review, New Millennium Writings, and Travelers’ Tales anthologies. She holds an MFA in creative nonfiction from the University of Iowa.

Judy’s wanderlust began early. A child of missionaries, she grew up in Fukuoka, Japan, where she used to run away from home every few days, just for the thrill of getting lost in a big city. By the age of three, she had grown accustomed to policemen catching her and taking her home. While at the Kerouac House, Judy will work on stories about her childhood in Fukuoka in the 1950s.