Julia Madsen

From a rural, blue-collar background in Iowa, Julia 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 the working-class heartland and cooking up fresh content over at Gothic Quill’s Substack.