Research Interests

Creative Writing: Emerging forms of poetry, & prose, domestic space research & writing, historical & culturally-fueled dystopian fiction, the literary ghost story, experiments with memoir, manifestos of the fictional and nonfictional unreliable narrator, historical domestic abuse texts, and myth-making for the unexplained.

Cultural & Physical Anthropology: Exploring connections of deep-humanity, Reliance on Symbolism, genetic theory, mutations & the mitochondrial path, the evolution of the domestic space.

Recent Research Activities

Current Research: 

Understanding the Image in Literature: Paleolithic Imagery, Human Cognitive Development, and Emergence of the Arts

Books:

• According to the Gospel of Haunted Women

• Writing Poetry: Methods in the Madness

Creative Publications:

Poetry:

"No Contact Order" Cimarron Review, print issue, 

“Josephine” The Antigonish Review print issue, 2020.

“Sugared Skull,” “Belly-Up,” and “Relictual Taxon” Painted Bride Quarterly. Issue 101, 2020.

“Daydream in a Bookstore About the Men in This Life,” First Finalist Winner, Sundog Lit Collaborative Contest with Constance Camille. Online November 12th, 2019, and appearing in Issue 16.

“Confirmation Number” Atlas and Alice, Fall 2019 Issue, online September 23rd, 2019.

"No Contact Order" Cimarron Review, print issue, Winter, Spring, Summer 2019.

“I See My House, My Field” Burning House Press, chosen by guest editor, Adrianna Robertson, February 18th, 2019. Web.

“When Our Children Died”Burning House Press, chosen by guest editor, Adrianna Robertson, February 18th, 2019. Web.

“Last Day of 2018” (a collaborative exquisite-corpse poem written with poet Mary Craig) Burning House Press, chosen by guest editor, Adrianna Robertson, February 18th, 2019. Web. Judith Roney’s exquisite corpse partner for Last Day of 2018 is Mary Craig, who writes poetry and nonfiction and lives in southwest Germany.

“That Bullshit Line, Bone of My Bones” Glint Literary Journal, Issue Nine, 2018

“When I am Nine” Glint Literary Journal, Issue Nine, 2018

“Song for Claude Neal” Subprimal Poetry Art, Issue Thirteen, 2018.

“Man-Child” Winner of Sinkhole’s First Creative Juicing Contest, October, 2018.

“Laetoli” and “Disquiet in Central Florida” The Hamilton Stone Review, Issue #39, October 11th, 2018.

“American Diner” The Museum of Americana, Issue Fifteen, October 2018.

“East of Apalachicola Haunted” Burrow Press, September 20th, 2018.

“News from the Dead at Dozier School for Boys” (nominated for the Orison Anthology) Parentheses Journal, September 12th, 2018.

“Sometimes, the Light” The Poetry Barn Distillery 2018
​https://www.poetrydistillery.com/poems/2018/2/28/sometimes-the-light

“Bird in a Brick House” Animal: A Beast of a Literary Magazine, April 2018“Post-Election” Sinkhole Magazine. 8/17/17. Web.
​https://sinkholemag.com/judith-roney-8-17-17

“Drought, Spring 2017” Eyedrum Periodically, “True Facts” Issue 15 2018.

“Humansong of Tooth and Hardness” Eyedrum Periodically, “True Facts” Issue 15 2018 http://www.eyedrumperiodically.org/issue-15-true-facts/two-poems-judithroney/​

“Sign Dancer” It was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. Anthology, Minor Arcana Press: Seattle. 2017. Print.

“Field Guide for a Human [Why My Heart Hurts So Bad]” Scissors and Spackle, 2017 Print Issue.

“Bone-Lace”  Tinderbox Poetry Journal, Volume: 4 Issue: 3http://tinderboxpoetry.com

“The Moment of Orgasm” Slipstream Press Annual Poetry Anthology, Issue #37, “The Road Theme” Summer, 2017. Print.

“Boy of the Witch-Wood” Cicada Magazine, Witch/Magical Realism Issue, September/October Issue, 2016. Print. http://www.cicadamag.com/thisissue/boy-witch-wood

“Maladaptive Valley”  Postcard Poems & Prose Magazine 2016. Web.https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/maladaptive-valley-by-judith-roney/

“Back Alley War” Postcard Poems and Prose Magazine. Web.https://postcardpoemsandprose.wordpress.com/2016/03/28/back-alley-war-by-judith-roney/​

“According to the Gospel of Haunted Women” (poem) Paper Swans Press, Anthology: Chronicles of Eve, United Kingdom 2016. Print.

“Speaking Pidgin at Dun Conor, Aran Islands” The Galway Review, The Republic of Ireland, December 2016. Web. https://thegalwayreview.com/2015/12/14/judith-roney-five-poems/

“Eleven Words from Beowulf” The Galway Review, The Republic of Ireland, December 2015 https://thegalwayreview.com/2015/12/14/judith-roney-five-poems/

“In Praise of Butter” The Galway Review, The Republic of Ireland, December 2015 https://thegalwayreview.com/2015/12/14/judith-roney-five-poems/

“Latin Word List” The Galway Review, The Republic of Ireland, December 2015https://thegalwayreview.com/2015/12/14/judith-roney-five-poems/

“The Way of the Cross” The Galway Review, The Republic of Ireland, December 2015https://thegalwayreview.com/2015/12/14/judith-roney-five-poems/

“How Boats are Born” Blinders Journal, Issue III, 2015. Web.

“Refugee” and “Could You Call It Exodus” Pomeleon: A Journal of Poetry, The Disobedience Issue, 2015

“War” and “Where Addiction Begins” Prism Review Contest Winners, Issue 17, 2015. Print.

“An Aquifer of Self ( With a Blessing from the Bog People)” The Hartskill Review, April 2015 Issue. Print.

“Taboo” and “At St. James” A Narrow Fellow, April 2015 Issue. Print.

“Of The Dithyrambic Enthusiasms Of An American Killer,” “My Name is Pia Farrenkoph,” and “Monkey Hips & Rice” Scissors & Spackle’s 2015 Issue. Print.

“endings” Dark Matter Journal, February 2015 http://hunstem.uhd.edu/DM/DM6.pdf

“Artifacts”  Mythic Delirium, October-December 2015, Issue 2.2. Web.

​”Time Toc” *82 review, Issue 2.4, 2014. Print.

“Dancing With the Bones of My Father”  Bones III, JWK Publications, October 2014

“Domestic Disturbance” Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review, Volume 17, Spring 2014. Print.

​”41, 48′ N, 87, 35.4’W to 28,21’28″N 80 41’5W (Coordinates for a Human)” Jet Fuel Review, Issue 7, Spring 2014. Print.

“Sanctuary” Foothill: A Journal of Poetry, Volume 3, Number 2, 2014 Winter Edition. Print.

“Wanderer Into the Void” Gambling the Aisle, Summer 2012 Edition

“The Admonition of Eve” Zaum, Issue Seventeen, 2013. Print.

“Woman Waitng for the Bus” Zaum, Issue Seventeen, 2012. Print.“Cypress Woman” Third Wednesday, Winter 2011. Print.

“The Way of the Witchetty-Grub” Cypress Dome, 2012. Print.

“Displacement” Cypress Dome, 2012. Print.

Poemography:

• “General Store” Driftwood Press, Issue 2.2, 2015 http://www.driftwoodpress.net/#!issues/cnec

Fiction:

• “Why I Won’t Sleep with Donald Trump” Adelaide Magazine, Issue 17, October 2018
• “Box” Ghost Parachute June 1st, 2018 Ghost Parachute
• “Leaving Shady Lane” All Things Girl, 2011

• “How to Operate with a Blown Mind” Issue #1 in The Rush Literary Magazine, 2017 http://www.therushmag.com/fictionjudith-roney
• ​“Cold City Smoking” Gambling the Aisle, Summer 2012 Edition

Creative Non-Fiction:

• “Walmart Holiday-Shopping”  Lunch Ticket, Summer/Fall Issue 2017 http://lunchticket.org/walmart-holiday-shopping/

• “My Nickname was Frankenstein” NonBinary Review, ​Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Anthology, September 2014, (nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2015)

• “< 80 BPM” in the “Cities” Issue #5, Winter 2017,  Shooter Literary Magazine, UK

Academic Essays/Scholarship:

• “The Image: What Is It?” University of Central Florida Master of Fine Arts Blog, June 19th, 2016 https://ucfcreativewritingmfa.wordpress.com/2016/06/19/we-see-thought-the-image-what-is-it/
• • “Calling Out the Creative” University of Central Florida Master of Fine Arts Blog, November 8th, 2015 ​​​https://ucfcreativewritingmfa.wordpress.com/

Anthologies:

• “My Nickname was Frankenstein”  NonBinary Review, ​Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Anthology, September 2014, (nominated for a Pushcart Prize, 2015)
• “< 80 BPM” in the “Cities” Issue #5, Winter 2017,  Shooter Literary Magazine, UK

• “Sign Dancer” It was Written: Poetry Inspired by Hip-Hop. Anthology, Minor Arcana Press: Seattle. 2017. Print

Professional Activities

Mentorship to Undergraduate, Graduate, and Post-Graduate University of Central Florida Poetry Students