Julie Gard

Julie Gard's most recent prose poetry collection is I Think I Know You, published by FutureCycle Press. Her first full-length book, Home Studies, was the winner of the Many Voices Project Prize from New Rivers Press and a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award. Additional collections include Scrap: On Louise Nevelson from Ravenna Press and the chapbooks Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series (Finishing Line Press) and Russia in 17 Objects (Tiger's Eye Press). Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in Gertrude, Clackamas Literary Review, Blackbox Manifold, and other journals and anthologies.

Julie lives in Duluth, Minnesota with her partner, the poet Michelle Matthees, and their wise elder cat and enthusiastic hound-mix pup. She enjoys foraging for berries and fiddleheads, making potholders out of old T-shirts, snowshoeing on "warm" winter days (18 degrees and above), and serving as Professor of Writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior.She has a B.A. in English from Grinnell College and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota.