Writer from the Midwest living in the cradle of blue mountains.
From a rural, working-class background in Iowa, Julia grew up on a gravel road and earned an MFA in Literary Arts from Brown University, where she received the Weston Graduate Prize and Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award. She is also a recipient of the Clemens Fellowship and two Doctoral Fellowships for Inclusive Excellence from the University of Denver, where she earned her PhD in English/Creative Writing. Her first book, The Boneyard, The Birth Manual, A Burial: Investigations into the Heartland (Trembling Pillow Press), was listed on Entropy’s Best Poetry Books of 2018. Her hybrid chapbook, “Home Movie, Nowhere,” was published with DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press in 2021.
Currently, she’s working on an essay collection about family history and the Heartland. Follow her over at Gothic Quill’s Substack, where she explores the dark threads and lore that pull her back home.
