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Judith Askew

Cotuit, Massachusetts

Judith Askew is the author of On the Loose (Bass River Press, 2016), selected by Tony Hoagland as the winner of the Bass River Press manuscript contest, and Here at the Edge of the Sea (Artship Publishing, 2009). She is coeditor of an anthology of women’s poems, Out of the Cellar (D’Aurora Press, 1978). Askew has worked as an editor and a writer in corporate settings, taught developmental writing at Cape Cod Community College, and founded and published a women’s health newsletter. She lives in Cotuit, Massachusetts. 

Column 721

Bakery of Lies