Trudy Morse, poet and musician, has lived in Chevy Chase,Maryland for some forty years. Her late husband, Malcolm S. Morse, a prominent scientist with the National Bureau of Standards, worked on dynamic thermo-physical measurements in space before his death in 1986. A political activist in the Washington, DC area, she worked on Civil Rights, Vietnam War and other peace movements. Her interest in her husband's research on anomalous phenomena has taken her to all five continents. She recalls with particular interest, her travels in Africa, Australia, Europe, India, China, and New Zealand. Trudy has traveled extensively in the USA, on frequent camping trips,cross-country, in National Parks from the East to the West coasts, as well as in Hawaii and Alaska.

Since her husband's death in 1986,she has performed with Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra and John Cage and other musicians including: Billy Bang, Peter Buettner, Burrill Crohn, Masashi Harada, Chris Funkhauser, George Lewis, Stuart Dempster, PaulineOliveros, J.D. Parran, Peter Apfelbaum, India Cooke,

Trudy has played in Festivals, such as Min Tanaka, Japan; Mureau Fest, Altanta;New Orleans Jazz Festival; San Francisco Jazz Festival; and Earshot Fest, Seattle, and performed in Folger Shakespeare Library Theatre (Washington DC), Knitting Factory (NYC), Merkin Hall (NYC), Istanbul Concert Hall, Jordan Hall (Boston) and Yoshi (Oakland, CA). She has been honored with 1970 American Women, 1972 American Women among World Notables, 1974 World Women, 1975 Among Southern Women, 1980 Social Reg.Prominent American Women and 1981 World Peace Through Law.