Judith Wright is a Canadian writer and retired epidemiologist.  She first published literary fiction in the 1990's in Grain Magazine, Prairie Fire, and The Fiddlehead. Her first novel, The Magpie Summer (Polestar Press) was published in 1992. In 2018 she self-published the non-fiction book, Dogwise; What We Learn From Dogs, an exploration of the dog world.

She has been publishing non-fiction stories in general interest magazines since 2015 (see Publications).

In 1998, after living for over a decade in Sweden, she returned to Saskatoon to pursue a Masters of Science in Epidemiology.  After twenty years as a public health epidemiologist, and two pandemics, she has returned to writing. 

Judith splits her time between Saskatoon and southwestern Saskatchewan.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     Author photo by James. R. Page