Each of Judy Gaudet's poems is a path to somewhere resonant, redolent of memories and anticipations both bittersweet and beautiful. She traces the paths the mind and body takes purposefully, as well as those it happens onto, by chance or consequence. The poems light on home and history, travel afar, return again. They are marked by the toughness of wholly looking and experiencing and are leavened by wry humour and true gratitude for the beauty and magic that touch the earth's days -- and our human ones, tripping over the stones of her path. Her Teeth Are Stones is Judy Gaudet's first full-length poetry book, following her chapbook Poems, you say.

A native of Prince Edward Island, Judy Gaudet works as a teacher and librarian in Charlottetown. Her poems have appeared in blueSHIFT, The Gaspereau Review, and ContemporaryVerse2; anthologized in The Poets of Prince Edward Island, Landmarks, and A Bountiful Harvest; and broadcast on CBC Radio's Live Poets Society.

Her Teeth are Stones is her first full-length poetry book, following her chapbook Poems, you say, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks. The mother of three grown daughters, she lives in Belfast, PEI, with her partner, David Helwig.

Visit her website at www.judygaudet.weebly.com.

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