Judith Grossman is an American writer. She earned a scholarship to Somerville College, Oxford, from which she received a First Class degree in English in 1958. She received a Ph.D. from Brandeis University, in 1968. She has taught at Bennington College. She also taught in the Creative Writing MFA programs at University of California, Irvine from 1992 to 1995 and the University of Iowa (1997). She was chairman of the liberal arts division at Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. She was raised Anglican.