Author Talk: Judith Barrington

Join us for a special reading & author talk with Judith Barrington in celebration of Pride month. 

The fourteen literary memoirs collected in Judith Barrington's new book Virginia’s Apple explore her life across six decades. The content is wide-ranging: from the early days of Second Wave feminism; navigating a sometimes precarious existence as an out lesbian long before it was commonplace; leaving England and becoming an American citizen; finding a life partner; and growing old with an inherited disability. 

These stories are laced with humor and joy, while pulsing below the surface is the slow unfolding of delayed grief over her parents’ drowning when she was nineteen, revealing how such a loss can shape a life. 

Judith Barrington is a poet, memoirist, teacher, and feminist activist. She has published five books of poetry, three poetry chapbooks, two memoirs and a book on memoir for writers. She was born in Brighton, England in 1944, lived in London in 1963 and then again from 1967 to 1976, having lived in Spain in the years between. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 1976 which she has made her home ever since. 

This event is co-sponsored by the Milwaukie Poetry Series and Milwaukie Pride.