Judith Lauter, poet, photographer, and neuroscientist, was born in Austin TX, a second-generation Texan. Her father wrote an outdoors column for the Austin American-Statesman, and owned a photography studio in downtown Austin. Photography was a large part of Judy's life from childhood, beginning with black-and-white pictures, and moving into color photography, including 35 mm slides. When she was still in elementary school, her family moved to Michigan, and she eventually attended the University of Michigan, where along with work on her English-lit major she also took a number of courses in...more
