Judith Rook was born and brought up in rural Yorkshire in the UK. The nearest city was Bradford, the great centre for wool processing, but she remembers fields running up to moorland much more clearly than mill chimneys. Now she lives in Western Australia.
Judith's early writing was done in old accountants' ledgers which had blank sheets interleaved with balance sheet pages. She wrote on the balance sheet pages as well. Not thinking of becoming a writer, Judith wrote whatever she felt like writing-stories, poems, reflections. Then life intervened and her imagination went underground. For some time, she worked in education and wrote articles and reviews about music.
After a few years, Judith began to write fiction. Recording ideas that had been bottled up for a long time, she thought that she had become an author. When rejection notices came in, she joined two writing groups, developed her technical skills and learned how to write stories for other people.
Judith has always read avidly, and she still does. Science Fiction is her favourite genre for reading, then come the great classics. Among her favourite Sci-Fi authors are: Isaac Asimov, Ursula K.Le Guin, C.J. Cherryh, Arthur C. Clarke, Phillip K. Dick and Julian May. Judith also writes short stories, generally about ordinary Australian life.
From time to time Judith rallies around important social issues and has been known to take to the streets in support, so long as there are good cafés along the way.