Julianne Buchsbaum

Julianne Buchsbaum graduated as valedictorian of Beloit College with a double major in Philosophy and Classics. She then earned an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of a Paul Engle Fellowship from the Michener Foundation. She completed her PhD in Literature at the University of Missouri.

Her poems have appeared in various journals, including Conduit, Verse, The Journal, Southwest Review, Delmar and Harvard Review and have been anthologized in Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century and A Best of Fence: The First Nine Years.

Buchsbaum is the author of Slowly, Slowly, Horses (2001, Ausable Press), A Little Night Comes (2008, Del Sol Press), and The Apothecary's Heir, which won a National Poetry Series award and was published in 2012 by Penguin Books.

She is also an independent scholar with interests ranging from Phenomenology, Gothic Literature, Tibetan Buddhism, Thanatology, Advaita Vedanta, Cult of Saints, and Apophatic Theology.