Judy Halebsky teaches Japanese literature and writing at Dominican University of California. For three years, she studied Japanese noh theatre at Hosei University on a MEXT scholarship. Her poems have been published in Runes, Five Fingers Review and Eleven Eleven. Residencies at the MacDowell Colony and the Millay Colony have supported her work. Her book Sky=Empty won the 2009 New Issues Poetry Prize and was published by New Issues Poetry & Prose in April 2010. She is originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.