Judie Rae is the author of 4 books for young adults, including a Nancy Drew Mystery, The Clue in the Camera. She is also the author of a college thematic reader, Rites of Passage and a novel, The Haunting of Walter Rabinowitz. Her poetry chapbook, The Weight of Roses was published by Finishing Line Press in 2014. Her essays have been published in "The Sacramento Bee", "Tahoe Quarterly", "Outside California" and online at Women's Voices for Change. Her essays have also been heard on San Francisco's NPR station, KQED. Judie was a college instructor of English for 27 years; now retired, she enjoys hiking, gardening, and teaching poetry and memoir writing classes to seniors.