BIOGRAPHY:

Judith Woolcock Colombo was born and raised on the island of Jamaica.  She came to America in 1969 at nineteen years of age to attend Fordham University.  She earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Fordham University, and a Masters in Philosophy from the New School For Social Research.

Night Crimes is Ms. Colombo's second published novel. Her first, The Fablesinger, was published in 1989 by The Crossing Press. She is currently working on a new novel.

Judith taught English, Analytical Thinking, and Research Skills courses at several New York City colleges for over twenty years. In the year 2000, she and her husband Vincent, now a retired N.Y.P.D. Sergeant of Detectives, moved from Park Slope, Brooklyn to rural Central New York, where she is devoting herself to her writing.   The Colombos have an adult son Benjamin who continues to live in Brooklyn.