Meet
Judy Gruen

Author of
The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement

Judy Gruen’s  The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement will have you thinking the F-word all the time—that’s right: Funny! This Los Angeles writer has crafted a career of writing sophisticated, relatable yet clean humor, which has earned her a loyal following of thousands of readers for her Web-based column “Off My Noodle,” published on www.judygruen.com.

A quip from The Women’s Daily Irony Supplement is on 5 million Starbucks® cups!

Judy’s previous books are: Carpool Tunnel Syndrome: Motherhood as Shuttle Diplomacy, which received a merit award, humor category, from the Midwest Independent Publishers’ Association, 2002. It was also excerpted in Woman’s Day. Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout, was named best humor book of 2003 by Midwest Independent Publishers Association. It was also serialized on eDiets.com’s “eDiets Extra” newsletter, sent to more than 3 million subscribers.

Her humor has been anthologized in Mirth of a Nation: the Best Contemporary Humor (HarperCollins, 2001); 101 Damnations: the Humorists’ Tour of Personal Hells (St. Martins, 2002); Chocolate for a Woman’s Courage (Fireside, 2002); Misadventures of Moms and Disasters of Dads (Moms in Print, 2004); and Parentlaughs, (Grammercy, 2006).

Judy’s essays have appeared in Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's Day, Family Circle, Chicago Tribune, Skirt!, and Dallas Teen, a feature in The Los Angeles Times, and pieces in numerous newspapers across the U.S. and Canada. She is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Jewish Journal, as well as Websites such as jewishworldreview.com, aish.com, ou.org, and thejewishwoman.org. Judy does podcasts for the Orthodox Union on OURadio.org. She was featured in Jewish Family Magazine in Spring 2007.

Judy, who has a Bachelor’s Degree in English literature from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master's Degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, is a former regular (now occasional) columnist for Religion News Service, writing on topics related to Jewish practice and spirituality. She has been a speaker at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop and given many humor presentations to the public, including a keynote luncheon talk at the University of Judaism in Los Angeles to more than 350 people. Judy is a member of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, American Association for Therapeutic Humor, and the Authors Guild.
 

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