Julie Marie Wade

Julie Marie Wade is the author of 16 collections of poetry, prose, and hybrid forms, including Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010), winner of the Colgate University Press Nonfiction Book Award and the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir,  Small Fires: Essays (Sarabande Books, 2011), Postage Due: Poems & Prose Poems (White Pine Press, 2013), winner of the Marie Alexander Poetry Series, When I Was Straight (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2014), Catechism: A Love Story (Noctuary Press, 2016), Six: Poems (Red Hen Press, 2016), selected by C.D. Wright as the winner of the AROHO/To the Lighthouse Poetry Prize, Same-Sexy Marriage: A Novella in Poems (A Midsummer Night's Press, 2018), The Unrhymables: Collaborations in Prose (Noctuary Press, 2019), co-authored with Denise Duhamel, Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing (The Ohio State University Press, 2020), winner of the Housatonic Book Prize for Creative Nonfiction, Skirted: Poems (The Word Works, 2021), Telephone: Essays in Two Voices (Cleveland State University Press, 2021), co-authored with Brenda Miller and selected by Hanif Abdurraqib as the winner of the Cleveland State University Press Nonfiction Book Award, Meditation 40: The Honesty Room (Pank Books, 2023), Fugue: An Aural History (Diagram/ New Michigan Press, 2023), and Otherwise: Essays (Autumn House Press, 2023), selected by Lia Purpura as the winner of the Autumn House Nonfiction Book Prize. A recipient of grants from the Kentucky Arts Council and the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Wade is an Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Florida International University in Miami.