Judith Shaw

A native New Yorker, Judith Shaw married an Aussie and raised two children in Indonesia, Singapore, and the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, Australia. She has a deep love of animals and feels an almost psychic connection with dogs, horses, and, on one striking occasion, a pet python. She was a solitary child. Her companion, caretaker, and best friend was Gamin, a black Standard Poodle known for hating the garbage man and cornering babysitters in the coat closet. Judith's first horse and the love of her life was a bay Morgan named Tom Thumb. When the family moved back to the States, Tom came too. At nineteen, he was probably the oldest gelding ever to cross the Pacific.When a riding accident ended her love affair with horses, Judith focused on her other lifelong passion: writing. After decades as an editor and journalist, she began to explore fiction. Charley's Horse is her first novel. Judith lives in Berkshire County, Massachusetts with her husband Ron, and Tilly, her Jack Russell terrorist.