Accessing this link will show you a public lecture delivered by Cofer on March 2, 2000 at the University of Wisconsin. You may view an archived video of this remarkable event (if you have a RealAudio player), and afterward you may browse different links to other sites (Glamour magazine, The Global Education Project,, etc…) that contain news and reviews of the author.

Judith Ortiz Cofer: University of Georgia
http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~jcofer/

This is Cofer's homepage as a faculty member of the University of Georgia's Department of English. Here you'll find contact information, a list of selected reviews and interviews, and photographs with a short biography of the famous author.

Montgomery College Judith Ortiz Cofer Page
http://ppl.nhmccd.edu/~dcox/ohenry/cofer.html

This page is part of the "Great Writers on the Internet" site, as maintained by Montgomery Community College. Here you'll find an array of important information on the author, from her mission of identity, to a short biography and assorted answers to student-asked questions. An interesting resource for lovers of Cofer's verse.

BIOGRAPHY
Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, but moved to Paterson, New Jersey at the age of four when her father joined the navy and was assigned to a post at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. She received a B.A. from Augusta College and an M.A. from Florida Atlantic University. In graduate school Cofer started writing poetry about Latina women and the problems they faced. She began teaching in public schools and in 1980 published her first collection of poetry Latin Women Pray. Cofer branched out from poetry in the late 1980s by publishing the novel The Line of the Sun, (1989), which was nominated for the Pulitzer prize, and then a collection of personal essays, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remeberance of a Puerto Rican Childhood in 1990. She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Georgia.