Julie Marie Wade

Academic One Buildling 354
Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus
3000 NE 151st Street
North Miami, FL 33181
E-mail: juwade@fiu.edu, julie.wade2@fiu.edu
Website: http://www.juliemariewade.com

Author's Bio

Born in Seattle in 1979, Julie Marie Wade completed a Master of Arts in English at Western Washington University in 2003, a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, and a PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at the University of Louisville in 2012. A 7-time Pushcart Prize nominee for poetry and creative nonfiction, she is also the recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the State of Kentucky (2010) and a Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir (2011). In August 2012, Julie will join the graduate faculty in creative writing at Florida International University in Miami.

Publications and Prizes

Books:

Postage Due (White Pine Press, 2013), Small Fires (Sarabande Books, 2011), Wishbone: A Memoir in Fractures (Colgate University Press, 2010)

Chapbooks:

Without (Finishing Line Press, 2010)

Prizes:

*Chicago Literary Award in Poetry (2004) *Gulf Coast Nonfiction Prize (2004) *Oscar Wilde Poetry Prize (2005) *Literal Latte Nonfiction Award (2006) *AWP Intro Journals Award for Nonfiction (2009) *American Literary Review Nonfiction Prize (2010) *Arts & Letters Nonfiction Prize (2010) *Thomas J. Hruska Nonfiction Prize (2011) *Lambda Literary Award (2011)

Personal Favorites

What I'm Reading Now:

Dog Years: A Memoir by Mark Doty, Don't Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine, Girls on the Run by John Ashberry, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson, Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

Favorite Books:

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, The Warrior Woman: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts by Maxine Hong Kingston, What Narcissism Means to Me by Tony Hoagland, The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey by Toi Derricotte, The End of Beauty and Never by Jorie Graham, Season of the Body by Brenda Miller, Bardo by Suzanne Paola, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World by Susanne Antonetta, Firebird by Mark Doty, Lord Brain by Bruce Beasley, Plainwater by Anne Carson, The Dream of a Common Language by Adrienne Rich, Funhome: A Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel

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Listing last updated: August 25, 2012

More Information

Listed as:

Creative Nonfiction Writer, Poet

Gives readings?

Yes

Travels for readings?

Yes

Identifies as:

Caucasian, Feminist, G/L/B/T

Prefers to work with:

Adults, Gay/Lesbian/Bisexual/Transgender, Teachers, Teenagers

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

Seattle, WA

Raised in:

Seattle, WA

Agent:

Andrew Paulson

Reviews, Recordings, and Interviews