Judah Mahay is a writer and activist. Born and raised in the rustic backwoods of Alaska while making a home in Hamptons, NY has provided him with a diverse perspective on life, culture, and politics.
As a boy, he started working for his father’s jet boat business, Mahay’s Riverboat Service. At nineteen, he obtained his 25 Ton Master’s U.S. Coast Guard Captains License and started expeditions in Alaska’s wild rivers, which brought him into the unclassifiable whitewater of Devil’s Canyon. Life in Alaska has filled him with a strong sense of both the beauty and horror of adventure.
In late 2008, he had his first story “Lord of the Dome” published in New York Twist Magazine and not to long after “The Trees of Evermore” won a writing contest to be published in the North Shoreian Magazine. A few months later “Lord of the Dome” was made into a short film after winning a contest by WeMakeYourMovie.com.
Along with these accomplishments, he founded the business community and resource BeYourArt.com. The website has grown to almost seven hundred artists and has published eleven video/audio podcasts, co-published ten articles with the North Shoreian Magazine, and hosted the annual “Be Your Art Writing Contest” where the winner received a custom artist logo worth five hundred dollars.
In the fall of 2009, he had a his poem “Willow” published in Mississippi Crow Magazine. He was a preliminary judge for storysouth’s 2009 and 2010 Million Writers Awards. Each time he read through a long list of wonderful science fiction and fantasy stories to finally select a handful to be considered as potential winners.
In the beginning of 2010, he will have the amazing opportunity to have a two week residency at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, where he will write the Watermill Grimoire, along with a handful of character driven vignettes based on artifacts from the Watermill archive. The characters from the vignettes will be the driving force behind the Watermill Grimoire fairy tale.
Currently, Judah lives on Long Island with his wife Lorien where he spends his free time writing short stories, building his company electric eMedia, engaging in political activism, and working on his novels under the watchful eye of his cat, Athena.
