Julie Weiss

Julie Weiss (she/her) is the author of The Places We Empty, her debut collection published by Kelsay books, and two chapbooks, The Jolt and Breath Ablaze: Twenty-One Love Poems in Homage to Adrienne Rich, Volumes I and II, published by Bottlecap Press. Her second collection, Rooming with Elephants, is forthcoming in 2025 with Kelsay Books. Her "Poem Written in the Eight Seconds I Lost Sight of My Children" was selected as a 2023 finalist for Sundress“s Best of the Net anthology. She won Sheila-Na-Gig“s editor“s choice award for her poem "Cumbre Vieja," was a finalist for the 2022 Saguaro Prize, and was shortlisted for Kissing Dynamite“s 2021 Microchap Series. Her work appears in ONE ART, Sky Island Journal, and Chestnut Review, among others. Originally from California, she lives in Spain.