Judith Vollmer was born on 1951; in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In 1990 she won the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin. Vollmer is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg where she teaches such courses as Intro to Poetry, Nature Writing, World Poetry, and Political Poetry, and co-teaches American Poetry and the Creative Process. She is also a faculty member of New England College's Masters of Fine Arts Program in Poetry, and co-editor of the 5 AM, a national poetry journal.

She has won Literature Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, as well as residencies at the American Academy in Rome, Yaddo, Centrum Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, and Vermont Studio Colony.

Works

Reactor, poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2004)

The Door Open to the Fire, poetry (Cleveland: Cleveland State University, 1998)

Black Butterfly, poetry (New York: Center for Book Arts, 1997)

Level Green, poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990)