Judith Gorgone

Judith is a designer, illustrator and educator. She designs and develops consumer products including textiles, home furnishings, stationery products, giftware and toys for manufacturers worldwide.

She is proprietor of The T Garden which sells her unique and whimsical designs on novelty products for poets and artists specializing in haiku, renku and sijo at www.judithdesigns.com/thetgarden.

She also founded two highly successful children's web sites: Planetpals.com (earth and environment) and International Kids Club at ikidsclub.com (world peace and world love).

Judith has lectured and exhibited her work in Japan, Korea and New York. While living in Japan she developed an interest in haiku, sijo and other poetry forms. Her work has been published in The Japan Times, Frogpond, Mianichi, and Sijo West, WHC and WHA.