Author 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 a nonfiction book about family history and true crime. Follow her over at Gothic Quill’s Substack, where she explores the dark threads and lore that pull her back home.
