Julie Marie Wade

Julie Marie Wade was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of many collections of poetry and prose, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010; Bywater Books, 2014), Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011), Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013), When I Was Straight: Poems (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2014), Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016), SIX: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2016), Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2018), The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose, co-authored with Denise Duhamel (Noctuary Press, 2019), Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), Telephone: Essays in Two Voices, co-authored with Brenda Miller (Cleveland State University Press, 2021), Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021), Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House, 2023), The Mary Years (Texas Review Press, 2024), Quick Change Artist: Poems (Anhinga Press, 2025), and Other People’s Mothers (University Press of Florida, 2025). Her work has appeared in Fourth Genre, The Missouri Review, Seneca Review, and Bennington Review, among other places. Julie holds an MA in English from Western Washington University (2003), an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh (2006), and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities from the University of Louisville (2012). She teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami and makes her home with her spouse, Angie Griffin, and their two cats in Dania Beach.

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