Judy Gahagan has worked as an academic psychologist, teacher, journalist and ballet school pianist. She has also been a tutor in Psychology and Social Sciences for the Open University in Rome. Now — when not writing poetry and prose — she translates, and runs a course for the Poetry School on Archetypal Psychology and Poetry.

About Night Calling:

"Her poems delight in the gorgeous, the intricate, the baroque. Her apprehensions are wide-eyed and her commitment to the large gesture unreserved and passionate." — Mimi Khalvati

"These poems are subtle and dense, with startling metaphors and cinematic qualities." — Patience Agbabi