Julie Suk was born and raised in Mobile, Alabama. She attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. In 1944 she married naval officer Bill Suk. For many years she was an artist, painting landscapes in oils. It was not until the 1960s that Suk took up poetry, inspired in part by the work of French poet Saint-John Perse. She has lived in Charlotte since 1966.
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