Judy Light Ayyildiz- Author and Educator

-Speaker, Workshop Leader

Selected Works

Poetry, Fiction, & Nonfiction

The Best of The Virginia Writers Club Centennial Anthology 1918-2018

Anthology includes excerpts from three of my published books: MUD RIVER, INTERVALS, APPALACHIA TO ISTANBUL, and FORTY THORNS

Poetry

INTERVALS, APPALACHIA TO ISTANBUL

Front Cover Art work copyright permission for use by K. Kamal Ayyildiz

“Foreword” to works by Dr. Erin Webster Garrett, Professor at Radford University

Mud River

“Unforced and authentic, which is pretty rare today.”

–-William Packard, NYQ Review

a NOVEL based on an oral biography of a Turkish woman of the past century placed in a historical frame

KIRK DIKEN (FORTY THORNS)

This novel is a history of Turkey from 1900 to the present, from the sultanate to the republic, of wars, revolutions and the changes within a nation, of a family and of a woman, a saga, a love story between a man and woman and a woman with her country.

Memoir

Nothing but Time

Spiritual strength from moving, insightful, yet humorous stories of the people and experiences in Judy's life.

Fiction and Nonfiction, Children Ages 6-12

Some of My Ancestors Are Ottomans and Turks

An American grandson of a Turkish immigrant learns about his Turkish and Ottoman heritage.

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