After decades living on their horse farm, Judith Stanton and her husband have downsized to a smaller property on a lovely lake in the North Carolina piedmont. She still has several rescued cats. She’s a great lover of animals of all kinds, as you can clearly see in her poems and novels about horses, cats, deer, and the occasional skunk and skink. 

She received a B.A. from Randolph Macon Woman’s College and a Ph.D. from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

A RITA finalist, Judith has published four historical romances—two set among the Moravians of Old Salem in the Revolutionary War era: Wild Indigo and His Stolen Bride. Two more—The Mad Marquis and The Kissing Gate—are set during the British Regency. His Stolen Bride was a finalist for “Best Historical Romance” in the RITA Awards, the “Oscars” for romance novels.

Judith’s fifth novel, A Stallion to Die For, is a contemporary equestrian suspense. Her latest novels, Under a Prairie Moon, set in Nebraska after the Civil War, and A Horse Named Hero, a young adult novel with an equestrian theme, are almost done!

Her first chapbook of poetry, Deer Diaries: The Seasons at Cat Crossing Farm, was published in 2017. Several more chapbooks are under construction.

Her scholarly edition of The Collected Letters of Charlotte Smith (2004) is published by Indiana University Press.

Judith’s pioneering scholarship on the life and letters of Charlotte Smith has earned her the Alumna Achievement Award from Randolph College (2023) and the Distinguished Alumna Award from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2017).  Randolph College honored her with a 6-minute video retrospective of her life and scholarship, which you can view below.