An Afternoon with Judy Reeves and her new book: "When Your Heart Says Go"

The origin story of Judy Reeves

What sort of mad longing besets a woman―nearing 50 and recently widowed―to sell everything she owns, buy an around-the-world plane ticket, pack a single suitcase, and set off alone on a year-long journey without a plan or agenda? When Your Heart Says Go answers that question. Set in 1990-91, Judy’s story takes readers from San Diego through 11 European countries, the then-Soviet Union, and finally India, during the lead-up to the first Gulf War. Judy's presentation will be followed by an audience Q & A and book signing.

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In gentle, gorgeous, and elegiac prose, Judy Reeves pulls the reader into a journey of quiet courage and insight that shines from her paragraphs in this memoir of midlife journey. Against a backdrop of foreign countries, her reverie on recovery—from alcohol, intimate losses, young widowhood—shows emergence in a woman who has spent the thirty years since then guiding others through reflection and self-inquiry. Reeves’ contributions as a teacher of the writing life are known to thousands: this is her origin story.

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Judy Reeves is an award-winning writer and teacher whose books include A Writer’s Book of Days and Wild Women, Wild Voices. In addition to her her books on the craft of writing, she has also published fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. When Your Heart Says Go is her first memoir.  A long-time teacher of creative writing, she teaches at writing conferences internationally and at San Diego Writers, Ink, a nonprofit literary center she co-founded. Judy lives and writes in San Diego, amid bulging bookshelves and an ancient Underwood typewriter that claims its own social media fan base.