Judith Ortiz Cofer

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Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952-2016), a Puerto Rican author, was born in 1952.

Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a variety of literary genres, including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.

Ortiz Cofer, Emeritus Regents' and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia, where she taught undergraduate and graduate creative writing workshops for 26 years.

Ortiz Cofer was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2010, and she received the University's 2014 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award, reflecting primarily from her personal experience as a Puerto Rican American woman.

Ortiz Cofer's art brings a poetic vision to memory and imagination.

She researched women, Latino history, and the American South, writing in a variety of genres.

Ortiz Cofer's work weaves together personal life and public space through close depictions of family life and rich descriptions of place.

Her manuscripts and papers are now stored at the University of Georgia's Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Early years

Judith Ortz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on February 24, 1952. In 1956, she and her family moved to Paterson, New Jersey, where they met there. When she was fifteen years old, Morot gave birth to Judith Ortz Cofer. They hoped for more opportunities for young parents in America. Despite Lugo's passion for education, he left school and joined the United States Navy. When his daughter was born, he was stationed in Panama. For the first time two years ago, Judith Ortiz Cofer met him for the first time two years ago. Call Me Maria is a young adult book that was published in 2004. The film tells the story of a teenage girl's transition from Puerto Rico to New York City. They went back-and-forth between Paterson and Hormigueros on several occasions. Ortz Cofer's book, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, claims that these trips were both her education and her social life. Although she was primarily educated in Paterson, New Jersey, she attended local schools in Puerto Rico when she was there. Ortz Cofer will remain in the home of her grandmother while in Puerto Rico. Her move from Puerto Rico to New Jersey greatly influenced her writing because she was able to compare the two cultures. Ortz Cofer's family migrated to Augusta, Georgia, where she lived until her death in 2016. She attended Butler High School while attending Butler High School. Judith and her brother, Ronaldo, had initially protested the family's removal from South. Ortz Cofer was struck by Augusta's vibrant colors and plants as compared to Paterson's gray concrete and skies.

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Academic and literary career

Ortiz Cofer obtained a B.A. From Augusta College, England, and later an M.A. A graduate of Florida Atlantic University with a concentration in English literature. Ortiz Cofer began earning fellowships from Oxford University and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference early in her writing career, enabling her to begin developing her multi-genre body of work. During the 1974-1975 school year, Cofer was fluent in English and Spanish, and he served as a bilingual tutor in Palm Beach County, Florida. After receiving her master's degree and releasing her first collection of poems, she became a lecturer in English at the University of Miami in Coral Gables.

Ortiz Cofer, a 1984 graduate of the University of Georgia, became the Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing. Ortiz Cofer, a professor at the University of Georgia, has since 26 years of teaching undergraduate and graduate students. Ortiz Cofer is best known for her creative nonfiction books, but she has also worked in poetry, short fiction, children's books, and personal narrative. Cofer began writing with poetry, which she said bore "the essence of language." Peregrina (1986) was one of her earliest books to win the Riverstone International Chapbook Competition. She has received numerous awards, including grants from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the Georgia Council for the Arts, as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts for poetry, the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and the Florida Fine Arts Council. Ortiz Cofer was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2010.

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Awards and honors

• 1986, Riverstone International Chapbook Competition for her first collection of poems, Peregrina
• 1990, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood received the PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation in Nonfiction
• 1990, the essay "More Room" was awarded the Pushcart Prize, which celebrates work published by small presses.
• 1991, the essay "Silent Dancing" was selected for The Best American Essays 1991
• 1994, first Hispanic to win the O. Henry Prize for the story “The Latin Deli”
• 1995, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio was named one of the best books of the year for young adults by the American Library Association
• 1995, University of Georgia's J. Hatten Howard III award, which recognizes faculty members who demonstrate notable potential in teaching Honors courses early in their teaching careers.
• 1996, Ortiz Cofer and illustrator Susan Guevara became the first recipients of the Pura Belpre Award for Hispanic children's literature.
• 1998, University of Georgia's Albert Christ-Janer Award
• 1999, Franklin Professorship
• 2006, Regents Professor Recognition
• 2007, Mentor Achievement Award, from the Association of Writers and Writing Programs
• 2010, Georgia Writers Hall of Fame induction
• 2011, Georgia Governor's Award in the Humanities
• 2013, University of Georgia's 2013 Southeastern Conference Faculty Achievement Award. This honor celebrates one faculty member from each SEC school and carries a $5,000 prize.