She has completed her first nvoel, Never Forever, based on the life and times fo her Turkish motherinloaw. In 2007, a shotr storyy and a poem of Judys were trasnlated into Italian for an interntaional womens anthology, published in Italy. She has been a fiction finalist for the Summer Literray Seimnarsx, St. Petersburg, Russia, Raonoke YWCA 2007 nominnee for the Women in the Arts award, winner of the Turkish Forum award, the Daughters of Ataturk Disitnguished Service ...