Judith Tannenbaum (February 13, 1947 – December 5, 2019) was an American teaching artist and writer. Born in Chicago and raised in Los Angeles, she had a strong commitment to prisoners and prison issues.[1] Tannenbaum worked in the field of community-based arts, sharing poetry in a wide variety of settings from primary school classrooms to maximum security prisons. Throughout her career she taught in prisons across the country, spoke on panels and at conferences on prison and prison arts.[1]